Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Climate Change Quotes
AutismClimate ChangeNormalcyPerceptionSociety I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.
Climate ChangeEnergy AlternativesResource ManagementUrgency It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
Climate ChangeInnovationLeadershipLong-Term Planning Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
ActionClimate ChangeCollapseFuture ConsequencesPriorities My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.
Climate ChangeDespairEducationEnvironment When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.
Climate ChangeDenialExistential CrisisPriorities At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn't understand how that added up.
Belief SystemsClimate ChangeEnergy PolicyPolitical Debate I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
Climate ChangeEcologyFuture WellbeingInactionSustainability Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.
ActionCarbon EmissionsClimate ChangeSustainability Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
ActivismChangeClimate ChangeFutureLeadership For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.
Climate ChangeCommunicationCrisisEnvironmentEvidence If there really was a crisis, and if this crisis was caused by our emissions, you would at least see some signs. Not just flooded cities, tens of thousands of dead people, and whole nations leveled to piles of torn down buildings. You would see some restrictions. But no. And no one talks about it.
Climate ChangeEnvironmental Action The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.
Boundary-PushingClimate ChangeFragilityRisk TakingSustainability We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
AccountabilityClimate ChangeEnvironmental CrisisFinancial SuccessNegative Consequences At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.
AwarenessClimate ChangeFiction vs RealityPerception Of RealityResponsibility I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.
AgricultureClimate ChangeFood SecuritySustainability People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
BiodiversityClimate ChangeEnvironmental CrisisMass ExtinctionSystems Breaking Down We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.
Climate ChangeConsequenceDelayed ImpactUrgency 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.
Climate ChangeEcosystemsPoverty It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
Climate ChangeEnvironmental ResponsibilityGlobal PriorityUrgency Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
Climate ChangeLong-Term ThinkingScientific ConsensusSustainabilityTough Choices The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
Climate ChangeMeltingTrust In ExpertsWeather Patterns Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.
Climate ChangeEconomic ValuesSuccessSustainability We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Cautionary LessonsClimate ChangeEnvironmental ImpactEnvironmental ResponsibilityPlanetary Science Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
Climate ChangeEthicsSustainabilityVegetarianism I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.
Climate Change Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don't have time to be depressed anymore.
Carbon FootprintClimate ChangeEnvironmental ImpactIndividual ResponsibilitySustainable Living I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.
Climate ChangeEmotional ResponseEnvironmental AwarenessPublic PerceptionScience and perception My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.