Becoming Quote by Joe Quirk

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea…

— Ban Ki-moon

“French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The 118 islands and atolls…

— David Stanley

“The goal of Seasteading is for wealthy people to eventually secede into fully independent nation-states, floating in the open ocean—protected from sea-level rise and…

— Naomi Klein

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

— Barack Obama

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised…

— Nils-Axel Morner

We have good examples of successful adaptation to rising sea levels. The Netherlands became a wealthy nation despite having one-third of its landmass below…

— Michael Shellenberger

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ban Ki-moon

Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will…

— Mark Powell

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many…

— Karl Pilkington

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

— James Russell Lowell

Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it's not just Pacific islands. It's not just Puerto Rico.

— Brian Schatz