"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."
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"The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin"
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"You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory."
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"The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable."
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"It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation."
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"Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility."
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"Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust."
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"One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought."
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"I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves."
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"By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while."
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"He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few seconds...a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime."
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"The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money and in this economic climate you just can't afford to do that."
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"I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change."
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"Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead"
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"We will respond to the threat of climate change"
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"People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change."
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