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Climate Quotes by Van Jones
- Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will…
- Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.
- Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets…
- Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.
- If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
- In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
- 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.
- 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…
- Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and…
- Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
- The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast…
- The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
- The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can…
- The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.
- We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
- We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
- Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?
- Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
More Climate Quotes
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