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“There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.”

Way Action Taken Doubt Essence Climate Disaster No Doubt Behaviour Disturbing Foresight Adjusting Timely Avert

Author:Tony Blair

“There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.”

Dream Achieve Climate Noble Collectives Endeavor

Author:Jaime Lerner

“There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.”

Knows World Climate Tragic

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist.”

Way Years States Might United United States Projects Clean Climate Come Up Coal Demonstration

Author:Al Gore

“This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.”

Ifs Years Country Problem Nations Growth Deals Numbers Economic Events Changed Huge Balance News Increase Climate Weather Dramatic Islands Severe Good News Economic Growth

Author:William J. Clinton

“This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.”

Climate Pulling Bullets Chamber Triggers Revolver Roulette Russian Roulette Pulling The Trigger

Author:Mark Lynas

“Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.”

Action Moving Impact Climate Power Of One

Author:Elizabeth May

“Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.”

Courses Climate Decades Reverse

Book:Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

“Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.”

World Humans Kind May Whole Today Life Is Force Consciousness Happenings Structure Climate Starting Seeking Driven Fragments Human Consciousness

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.”

Care Energy Policy Climate Health Care Fuel Fossils Tobacco Fossil Fuel Health Care System Energy Policy

Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.”

Want Feels Facts Reality Answers Support Climate What You Want Right Answers

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks... kick in one after another.”

Years Destiny Hell Path Climate Chosen Kicks Gas Cycles Carbon Feedback Our Destiny Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Carbon Cycle

Author:Mark Lynas

“Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.”

World Way Civilization Climate Redesign

Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.”

Humanity Vision Climate Twins Urgency Pillars

Book:Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap

Source: Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap

“We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.”

Ifs Years Dangerous Objects Late Climate Too Late

Author:Stephen Schneider

“We are all guilty and we all have to be part of the solution. We have to do the best we can and then try to do better. It's not about any one person doing everything; it's about all of us doing something and then maybe a little more.”

Trying Littles Persons Solutions Climate Guilty Do The Best

Author:Laurie David

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”

Facts Today Tomorrow My Friends Climate Fierce Urgency Unfolding Breaking Silence Conundrums Lost Opportunity Dejected Life Unfolding

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.”

Climate Redemption Precipice Tipping Tipping Point

Author:James Hansen

“We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.”

Form Energy Water Tree Produce Building Waste Climate Stores Release Solar Energy

Author:William McDonough

“We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.”

People Thinking Opportunity Cities Keys Climate Mayors Envelopes

Author:Greg Nickels

“We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.”

Needs Earth Tasks Climate Assistance

Author:Laurens van der Post

“We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.”

America Opportunity Effort Right Now Unique Red Blue Climate Urban Banner Unifying Coastal Unique Opportunities Red And Blue Urban And Rural

Author:William J. Clinton

“We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.”

“We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.”

Way Values Opportunity Energy Chance Economy Equal Diversity Climate Inclusion Equal Opportunity New Energy

Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.”

Knows Giving Trying Humans Enough Happens Courses Strong Force Events Planets Giving Up Miracle Climate Very Strong Sidewalk Poke Dandelions

Author:Elizabeth May

“We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.”

Humans Animal Millions Planets Climate Species Stability Guardian

Author:Mark Lynas

“We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.”

Want Country Government Force Smart Climate Partners Supportive

Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.”

War Found Nations Hours Challenges Leader Struggle Sacrifice Civilization Survival Climate Mortals Resolve Urgency Readiness Struggle For Survival 11th Hour

Author:Al Gore

“We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.”

Needs Humans Energy Cities Car Climate Efficiency Rebuilding Human Needs Energy Efficiency

Book:Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

Source: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

“We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.”

Ifs Happens Waiting Percent Climate Certainty Battlefields

Author:Gordon R. Sullivan

“We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.”

Years Moments Next Decision Planets Ten Impact Climate Sweeping Precedent Future Direction

Author:Eban Goodstein

“We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.”

Years Two Happens Fire Dangerous Climate Two Years Two Year Olds Playing With Fire

Author:William F. Laurance

“We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.”

Planets Climate

Author:Al Gore

“Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?”

Wells America Poverty Break Climate Oil Discrimination Why Not

Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.”

Wells Children Known Worry Generations Our Children Impact Climate Climate Change Grandchildren

Author:Margaret Beckett

“What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.”

World Born Alive Generations This World Climate Great Times This Generation

Author:Paul Hawken

“What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?”

Needs Humans Degrees Climate Climate Change Proof Motivated Catastrophe

Author:Eric Chivian

“When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.”

World Earth Together Imagination This World Changed Moon Resources Climate Manage Working Together Crew Outlook Apollo Viewpoints Spaceships Outlook On Life

Author:Jim Lovell

“When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."”

People Should Political Asks Climate Ask Me Outraged

Author:Joseph J. Romm

“When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.”

Cutting Design Ought Program Climate Edges Cutting Edge

Book:Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

Source: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

“When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

Tree Plant Climate Seeds Plant A Tree

Book:The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

Source: The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

“While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.”

People Seems Levels Progress Conversation Climate Ill Pursue Defined Faster Destination Racing Panic High Level Trenches Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Gwynne Dyer

“Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?”

Fighting Leader Economy Green Climate Environmental Equity Eco Birthing Green Economy

Author:Van Jones

“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.”

People Ifs Use Action Differences Issues Influence Climate Champion Making A Difference Voters Educate

Author:Joseph J. Romm

“You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.”

Needs Investment Climate Guarantees Assets Carbon Portfolios

Author:Al Gore

“You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.”

Ifs Should Courses Asks Results Events Victory Climate Campaigns Tides Future Time

Author:Elizabeth May

“You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.”

Thinking Way Mean Sacrifice Comfort Creatures Climate Climate Change Forgiven Creature Comforts

Author:Mark Lynas

“We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate”

Believe Climate Ice Sheets Snaps Ice Hockey

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.”

Thinking Men Ideas Different Remember Given Born Media Gay Climate Ridiculous Instant Activist Assertion Partisans Gay Men Credence Born Gay

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.”

Men Years Use Might Earth Energy Millions Sun Dying Limits Ocean Weak Increase Climate Surface Atmosphere Thrive Solar System

Author:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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