Climate Quotes by Graciela Chichilnisky

If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

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Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does…

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We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean…

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We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Changing an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming…

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Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and…

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We have used the majority of our carbon budget and we are already at dangerous levels of CO2 concentrations, about 400 parts…

— Graciela Chichilnisky