Climate quotes
879 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized."
"Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity."
"I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy."
"Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]"
"If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it."
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"For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change."
"You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it."
"Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many."
"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."
"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."
"Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security."
"An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates."
"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now."
"The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution."
"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
"Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth"
"It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science."
"We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters."
"Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course."
"Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation."
"I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem."
"The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril"
"When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories."
"Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere."
"Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today."
