Climate Quotes · Page 8

Environmentalism has failed.

— David Suzuki

There could be oil coming up until August.

— Carol Browner

We need to tackle energy poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon

I do [believe climate change is man-made].

— Maggie Hassan

We need to move away from oil, period.

— James Woolsey

Climate change is upon us every single day.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

— Anonymous

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

— Chinua Achebe

“Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.”

— Ulrich Beck

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

— Sylvia Earle

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

— Nawaz Sharif

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

— Van Jones

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

— Nicholas Stern

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

— William McDonough

Computer models of the climate…[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

— Freeman Dyson

“Solar Car Powers Your House When It's Parked”

— Anonymous

My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax.

— Barack Obama

We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re…

— Theresa Villiers

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

— Frank Zappa

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

— Peter Senge

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

— Carly Fiorina

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

— E. O. Wilson

I supported to reduce oil consumption in California by 50 percent, 50 percent in the next 15 years. They didn't even bother to show up.

— Jerry Brown

I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does…

— Ahmed Zaki Yamani

The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming…

— Mark L Campbell

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard…

— Hugh Mackay

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that…

— Atul Gawande

We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about…

— William McDonough

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and…

— Bradley A. Smith

Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world…

— Ross Gelbspan

...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human…

— David Miliband

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you,…

— George Orwell

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at…

— Eileen Claussen

If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with…

— John Goodman

My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades,…

— Burt Rutan

There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate.…

— Michael Pollan

“Problem 7-4 Can used cooking oil or grease, such as that from a deep-fat fryer or a frying pan, be poured into…

— Stan Gibilisco

“A major part of sustainability is social justice, here and everywhere. Think of it this way: justice is a technology. It’s like…

— Kim Stanley Robinson