Climate Quote by Christopher Flavin Download Open image “Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.” — Christopher Flavin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Dreams Hope Humanity Pillars Twins Urgency Vision
When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion. — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions. — Hany El-Banna Copy Share Image
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“We’re moving faster with our science and technology than our morals are evolving, we’re going to have to live in the future we create… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels,… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine... — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the… — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
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