Air Quote by Alex Steffen

“Less obviously, concern for the environment is a luxury good. Wealthy Americans are willing to spend more money to protect the environment as a…

— Charles Wheelan

Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously a public…

— Michael Bloomberg

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted…

— Vivienne Westwood

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great…

— Evo Morales

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels.…

— Ban Ki-moon

I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to…

— Lynn Jurich

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over…

— Wangari Maathai

The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial growth, massive…

— Pope John Paul II

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our…

— Gina McCarthy

First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto…

— Ottmar Edenhofer

The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than…

— Raimond Gaita

If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create less of…

— Tatiana Schlossberg