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Planet Quotes by James Hansen
- Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.
- Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
- Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change…
- We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse…
- The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency…
- The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with…
- If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and…
- What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
- What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
- It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say…
- We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate…
More Planet Quotes
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. — Margaret Atwood
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! — Robert Ballard
- November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world,… — Afrika Bambaataa