- Clean Energy
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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
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought... hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
- Floods
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Addressing climate change and positioning the United States as the leader in advanced energy should be a top priority for our country and our economy, and I applaud the Obama administration for the steps it is taking.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national 'I' in the climate change debate, COP 21 proved to be a case in point for a change of lenses.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020