Climate Quote by William H. Calvin Download Open image “Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.” — William H. Calvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Emissions Goals Growth Response Stopping
We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We clearly have to reduce harmful energy emissions. Everyone acknowledges we simply can't switch off fossil fuels overnight. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, then we will pass a danger point, beyond which the consequences for… — Michael Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it. — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Let's make sure that when companies make investments to reduce emissions that they're rewarded for that and encouraged to do more. — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
“By itself, stopping emissions is insufficient. That carbon has to go someplace. As the Soil Carbon Coalition argues, it might as well go into… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
“Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth.… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
“It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But even the… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020… — William H. Calvin 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 of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you… — Thom Yorke Copy Share
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
