Climate Quotes

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the informed layman's perspective... .

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

I'm not a big believer in man-made climate change.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.