Afford Quote by Michael Specter

The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are…

— Bill Gates

Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature…

— Lester R. Brown

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed,…

— Peter Garrett

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

— James Lovelock

Nobody is suggesting climate change won't negatively impact crop yields. It could. But such declines should be put in perspective.

— Michael Shellenberger

Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.

— Rex Tillerson

“Climate change is not just about melting icebergs, storm surges, floods, and droughts, according to Parenti. A warmer world will be more dangerous and…

— Linda Marsa

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most…

— Ted Turner

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

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration,…

— Michael Franti

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

— Lewis B. Smedes

“Ord ultimately concludes that human civilization has a good chance to survive even at double that temperature rise. "I looked at these models up…

— Adam Becker