Best Climate Change Quotes

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The continuing conflict between the US and China complicates matters, because we ought to work together on climate change and on developing a vaccine against Covid-19.

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

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

It’s not a choice between our environment and our economy; it’s a choice between prosperity and decline.

All across the world, …increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

It is deeply pejorative to call someone a climate change denier. This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust Denial.

If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

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.

I’m no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.

We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.

I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn’t say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

We only get one planet.

In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

There’s no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is to immediately start on a vegan diet.

Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.

Some argue that now isn’t the time to push the green agenda – that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem – high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today’s financial difficulties.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

Climate change is my greatest concern.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

My friends, this body – perhaps more than any other gathering in human history – now faces that difficult task.

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.