Climate Change Quotes

1105 Climate Change quotes by 483 unique authors

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis... — David Rockefeller
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before. — Judi Dench
A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance. — Lester R. Brown
The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is… — Dixie Lee Ray
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction… — Al Gore
A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed. — Ban Ki-moon
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the… — Margot Wallstrom
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government.… — Robert Muller
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component… — Jacques Chirac
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation"… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address… — Al Gore
Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring… — Barbara Stocking
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number… — Michael Oppenheimer
I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold… — James Lovelock
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions,… — Rowan Williams
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama… — Jeffrey Sachs
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature. — Rene Dubos
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we… — Al Gore
I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on… — Robert Muller
It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform… — Maurice Strong
There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could… — John Holdren
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full… — David Foreman

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