Climate Quotes

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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. — Van Jones
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud… — Eban Goodstein
It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future. — Eban Goodstein
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now… — Elizabeth Kolbert
It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps,… — Eban Goodstein
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses… — William H. Calvin
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones
Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when… — Van Jones
Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked. — Joseph J. Romm
Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better… — Jay Inslee
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. — Hermann Scheer
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper… — Amory Lovins
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. — Joseph J. Romm
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of… — Mark Lynas
One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your… — Unknown Author
One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the… — Eban Goodstein
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is… — Mark Lynas
Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change… — James Hansen
Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create… — Jack Edwards
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud. — William H. Calvin

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