Climate Quotes by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

17 Climate quotes by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s climate voice is unmistakably activist. Across 17 short statements, he highlights the health implications of environmental neglect and urges civic engagement.

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Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded…

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Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers

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We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

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Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing…

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I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters…

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GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into…

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What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they…

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You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the…

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There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval,…

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Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does…

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The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain…

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You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from…

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Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political…

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Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us…

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The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying…

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Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure…

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If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass…

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The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five…

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The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you,…

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Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about…

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Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our…

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Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last…

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One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory…

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We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities...

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GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways.…

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Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit.…

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The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

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You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public,…

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Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the…

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