Carbon Quote by Van Jones Download Open image “Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.” — Van Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carbon Government Needs New technology Politics Technology Two Two things
The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they need, that… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We need to be focused on solutions for the climate crisis. One of the solutions I find promising is carbon pricing. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
There would be a cost for dumping carbon into our atmosphere and a cap on total emissions. The government must make a clear and firm decision - terminating the idea in our society it is free to pump infinite amounts of carbon into the air. Once that happens, private capital will flow even more aggressively into developing and deploying the… — Van Jones Copy Share
Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
We're not paying a real price for carbon. If we were, we wouldn't be using as much. We need to have the right perspective.… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing. — Katharine Hayhoe 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
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically… — Marc Morano Copy Share Image
Each year we pump at least six billion tons of heat-trapping carbon into the innermost layer of our atmosphere, whose outer extent is only… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
Jesus was not born on December 25th. There's carbon evidence of it. That freaks people out. — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image