Climate Change famous quotes
04-14-2025
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This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
-- Al Gore -
We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
-- Al Gore -
Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.
-- Alfred W. Crosby -
It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.
-- Angela Merkel -
A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.
-- Barack Obama -
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
-- Bill McKibben -
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.
-- Bill McKibben -
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
-- Chief Seattle -
We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.
-- Christiana Figueres -
We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action
-- David Karoly -
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
-- David R. Brower -
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis...
-- David Rockefeller -
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
-- David Suzuki -
People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.
-- David Titley -
Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?
-- Don Cheadle -
The European nations take climate change very seriously.
-- Donella Meadows -
Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
-- Ellen Goodman -
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
-- George Monbiot -
Peace with all the world is my sincerest wish.
-- George Washington -
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.
-- Gus Hall -
The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.
-- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber -
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.
-- Hilary Benn -
Our changing climate has changed our politics
-- Hilary Benn -
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
-- James Hansen -
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
-- James Hansen -
I was...labelled as an advocate because...I measured something.
-- Jeremy Jackson -
We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
-- Jim Yong Kim -
I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.
-- Joe Biden -
Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.
-- John Boehner -
Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
-- John C. Sawhill -
Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.
-- Jonathan Schell -
I don’t know the science behind climate change.
-- Joni Ernst -
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
-- Ken Livingstone -
We've got to find another way of producing energy.
-- Larry Hagman -
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.
-- Lester R. Brown -
Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.
-- Mark Lynas -
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
-- Mark Lynas -
There must be more to life than having everything.
-- Maurice Sendak -
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
-- Maurice Strong -
The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.
-- Michael Franti -
For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
-- Mitch McConnell -
Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.
-- Naomi Oreskes -
I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels
-- Nicholas Stern -
Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet
-- Nicholas Stern -
Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen
-- Nicholas Stern -
There are probably already too many people on the planet.
-- Nina Fedoroff -
As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.
-- Norbert Reithofer -
Climate change is a global commons problem.
-- Ottmar Edenhofer -
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.
-- Peter Barrett -
Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.
-- Peter Lilley -
Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.
-- Rajendra K. Pachauri -
Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon intensive commodity.
-- Rajendra K. Pachauri -
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
-- Rene Dubos -
Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
-- Richard Leakey -
Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.
-- Roy Spencer -
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
-- Samuel Johnson -
It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.
-- Steve King -
Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.
-- Steven Guilbeault -
Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.
-- Wangari Maathai -
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'
-- William McDonough -
Climate change isnʼt a distant threat. Itʼs already changing the way we live.
-- Jeff Orlowski -
Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.
-- Patty Judge -
You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.
-- Adam Conover -
I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.
-- Mark Kirk -
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics
-- Brian Cox -
Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.
-- Graciela Chichilnisky -
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
-- Susan George -
A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them
-- John Gummer -
It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.
-- Katharine Hayhoe
