Climate Quote by James Hansen Download Open image “It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.” — James Hansen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Eco Environment Immoral Inspirational Motivational People Spiraling out of control Would be Young Young people
If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
We, the older generations, simply cannot leave a world for you, the younger generations, in which climate change impacts become ever more threatening to… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs are very… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of income distribution… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade — James Hansen Copy Share Image
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
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… — James Hansen 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