Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Melting of the huge Antarctic glaciers, proceeding more rapidly than anticipated, threatens a rise in sea level that will drive tens of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The rich and powerful are going to survive longer, but the effects are very real―and they're getting worse very quickly as more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since November 8, 2017 the United States is literally alone in the world in first of all refusing to join in efforts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are simple things which would make sense. Take, say, weatherization, which would make a big cut in the unemployment rate. That's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
![“One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/230/noam-chomsky-42_bases_one-of-the-dangers-that-donald-trump-pos_2755620.jpg)
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