Climate Change Quotes

“We’ve learned that the most effective way at getting the sheep to willingly hand over their rights is to use a matter that’s life threatening. If they think their lives and their loved ones’ lives are in jeopardy, they’ll quickly agree to whatever we say. Even better than a virus outbreak is to make them think the whole planet will become inhabitable—a scenario where everyone would die. That’s why our Global Warming—which we changed to Climate Change—is our most important agenda. Instead of the reality of climate change being cyclical, of course, we make them think it’s humans’ fault and that way we can drastically mold their way of living to suit our needs. They’ll do whatever we tell them, give up all their rights and become completely dependent on us. Along with using technology for control, our Climate Change agenda is key.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Humanity is the only species that actively debates whether or not it should maintain the environmental conditions necessary for its own continued existence. Other species do not struggle with this sort of thing.”
― Natalie Kyriacou, Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction

“Thus far, environmental policy worldwide is undertaken much like a school group project which tends to involve grand objectives, paired with an unspoken understanding that no one’s really going to follow through. Across the world, the journey to protect the environment has been long, slow and annoying.”
― Natalie Kyriacou, Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction

“They march in the streets and the classrooms and the courtrooms and the parliaments and the boardrooms, and we thought they would stop, but they didn’t. We thought they would grow tired, but still they didn’t. They grew louder and louder until every corner of the world heard their demand: a planet they can live on. That’s what they want, and they keep saying it, and they won’t stop saying it.”
― Natalie Kyriacou, Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction

“Maybe we will drown or burn or starve one day, but until then we get to choose if we’ll add to that destruction or if we will care for each other.”

He isn’t listening to me, but I don’t expect him to. He never did.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“  We call it climate change, but it’s not the climate that’s failing. It’s us—our greed, our silence, our memory. The planet is not in crisis. We are.”
― Lawrence Nault

“It’s not a good idea to fall in love, okay?” I say softly. “Not with people, and not with places.”

Fen looks surprised by this.

“I loved a landscape and watched it burn,” I say. “This island, you can see what it will look like, there’s a film over everything. You can see it disappearing. There’s no stable ground. Not here. Not anywhere else.”

“And you’d want to try and survive all of that on your own?” she asks.

“What that instability does to relationships—what constant danger does to them—is devastating. It’s unraveling.”

I can see she doesn’t believe me but I don’t push the point. She will see, one day. Loving a place is the same as having a child. They are both too much an act of hope, of defiance. And those are a fool’s weapons.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“Time is running out in our fight against climate change!”
― Mary Fran Reed PhD

“The richest 1 percent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity.”
― Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

“Emigration and war are two sides of a single coin. It has been rightly said that the greatest producer of migrants is war - war in one guise or another, since climate change and poverty are, essentially, the sick fruit of a blind war that man himself has declared - against a fairer distribution of resources, against nature, against his own planet.”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“The Planet Is Like the Titanic-And We’re Steering Straight Into the Iceberg.”
― Mohamed Dosou

“The problem with the United Nations isn’t that the politicians there are ignorant,
hidebound, self-interested, or corrupt. The problem with our response to climate change isn’t a problem with passing the right laws or finding the right price for carbon or changing people’s minds or raising awareness. Everybody already knows. The problem is that the problem is too big. The problem is that different people want different things. The problem is that nobody has real answers. The problem is that the problem is us.”
― Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

“Ditch the car, ride a bike.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Climate change is the most fascinating scientific, political, and social puzzle in history.”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“Climate Change is the politicization of science”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“ESG demands that businesses prove they're not just profit machines but responsible stakeholders.”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction? Are we evil?”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“The political system that you have created is all about competition. You cheat when you can, because all that matters is to win, to get power. That must come to an end, we must stop competing with each other, we need to cooperate and work together and to share the resources of the planet in a fair way.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“Then we start talking about a circular economy and rewilding nature and the need for a just transition. Then you don’t understand what we are talking about.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Ord ultimately concludes that human civilization has a good chance to survive even at double that temperature rise. "I looked at these models up to about 20 degrees of warming, and it still seems like there would be substantial habitable areas," he said. "But, it's something where it'd be very bad, just to be clear to the audience," Ord hastened to add.
     Climate science suggests that "very bad" is a gross understatement. "A temperature rise of 10 degrees [Celsius] would be a mass extinction event in the long term," says Luke Kemp, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and an expert on climate-induced civilizational collapse.”
― Adam Becker, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

“Along with the rest of the environmental movement, I used the expression 'climate emergency', but over the past year of elm-watching, I've realised emergencies are events that require immediate, drastic, high-paced intervention, designed to bring the situation to an end. Climate action just isn't like that and I no longer believe the emergency metaphor is helpful: it implies that the problem will be short-lived, that experts will be able to handle it and that we should be in a state of heightened emotion, in 'fight-or-flight' mode, until help arrives. It makes many people so upset that they're understandably immobilised or frozen with fear, or too distressed to be rational. In reality we all need to engage deeply and long term, in cool, life-affirming ways. I believe recovery or healing is a better way of thinking about the issue: getting off our fossil fuel addiction, restoring our damaged relationship with the rest of the natural world and trasforming to healthier ways of being.”
― Mandy Haggith, The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them

“This planet’s story won’t be saved by perfect heroes, but by those who keep turning up to help rewrite the ending.”
― Lawrence Nault

“You can’t negotiate with a wildfire. You can only ask yourself what kind of world allowed it to burn this way—and what you’re willing to do to stop the next one.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Nature is the time keeper, but we cannot see the clock.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Crop ecologist estimate that for each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season, we can expect a 10-percent decline in grain yields.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“In 1997, climate change was discussed in the future tense. Today we discuss it in the present tense. It is no longer something that may happen. It is happening now.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Higher temperatures can reduce or even halt photosynthesis, prevent pollination, and lead to crop dehydration.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“A 2005 study, Impacts of a Warming Artic, concluded that the Artic is warming almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization