Top 46 Quotes About Climate Action
#1. Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.
Frances Beinecke
#2. Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.
Naomi Klein
#3. Right now capitalism is winning hands down. It wins every time the need for economic growth is used as the excuse for putting off climate action yet again, or for breaking emission reduction commitments already made.
Naomi Klein
#4. Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.
Richard Branson
#5. If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.
Paul Krugman
#6. I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.
David Titley
#7. Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all
Ban Ki-moon
#9. Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.
Frances Beinecke
#10. Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.
Michael Bloomberg
#11. I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.
David Pocock
#12. Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#13. 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.
Maria Rodale
#14. Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
Susan Collins
#15. What's blocking action on climate change is what's blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what's at stake is quarterly earnings.
Rebecca Solnit
#16. You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you.
Joseph J. Romm
#17. Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years.
Peter Singer
#18. The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.
Michael Franti
#19. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#20. What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.
David Miliband
#21. Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
Christine Lagarde
#22. What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?
F. Sherwood Rowland
#23. As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
#24. We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action
David Karoly
#25. The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change ... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.
Jason David Frank
#26. We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.
Newt Gingrich
#27. Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
Peter Garrett
#28. Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in anticipation of supposed long run trends, may concentrate on the wrong issues and make matters worse rather than better.
Colin Robinson
#29. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
Malcolm Turnbull
#30. Every footstep we take, every action has a consequence. We breathe in weather, but we breathe out CO2. We're responsible for weather and for climate.
Gretel Ehrlich
#31. Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable ... one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions ... therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant
George C. Marshall
#32. Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.
John Gummer
#33. There's something better than an 'excuse' for your mistake, which is 'now you know how to stop it from happening again'.
Mohith Agadi
#34. Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action ... we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives
Joan Ruddock
#35. All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.
Al Gore
#36. Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
William J. Clinton
#37. There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
Nicholas Stern
#38. We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.
Mark Udall
#39. In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
Martin Rees
#40. I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.
Ban Ki-moon
#41. Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
Bill McKibben
#42. Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.
Angela Merkel
#43. Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.
Margaret D. Klein
#44. Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#45. Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.
Martin O'Malley
#46. Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
Elizabeth May
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