Australia Quote by Jeff Goodell

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our…

— Kevin Rudd

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it…

— Charles Sturt

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most…

— Richard Flanagan

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

— Ban Ki-moon

Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our time'. But…

— Tim Winton

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the…

— Kevin Rudd

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate…

— Amy Goodman

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other…

— Peter Garrett

Australia is the most isolated continent.

— Jared Diamond

Many smaller economies - island states, poor nations, and tropical countries are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

— Brian Deese

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you…

— Brian Cox

Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the…

— Jeff Goodell