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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate Change Quotes
Words on a problem that stopped feeling abstract.
These quotes trace climate change from a distant academic topic to a widely acknowledged and pressing concern, touching on carbon pricing as one practical response. Others connect it to broader patterns of resource depletion and waste. For related messaging, see Slogans.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
- Extreme Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.
- Burying
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will need to reach out to all those actors - to governments, to civil societies, to businesses - and help in mobilizing them to help in this fight against climate change.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impacts of climate change are not going to get better; they are going to get worse.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed by climate change. But humanity's mass destruction of the Earth's wildlife is all too little discussed.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not surprised Cameron says he supports what Gillard is doing in Australia because we have, in the U.K., a totally misconceived climate change plan as well.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effect of climate change is not simply to reduce rain during the summer months, but also to increase the number of torrential storms. When the rain falls that hard and fast, it cannot sink into the ground and go down to the aquifers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.
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- Nov 07, 2020