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"The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it."
"I feel passionate about solving the climate crisis."
"In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis."
"The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price."
"Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government."
"I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now."
"I've always kind of hated films about climate change."
"Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen."
"The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically."
"Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy."
"Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses."
"Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud."
"I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff."
"I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet."
"When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia."
"I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer."
"My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires."
"You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate."
"The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis."
"Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace."
