“The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.” LongSometimesAmericaPoliticsEnergyDifficultPathSourceClimate ChangeTransitionEnergy SourcesNational TreasureSustainable Energy Author:Barack Obama
“Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.” KnowsHomeCausesDifficultNatureLevelsKnow HowIssuesSeaDyingHabitHigherFindingsMajorsIncreaseClimateSpeciesEnvironmentalClimate ChangeDuesConsumptionExtinctionTemperatureEcosystemsElevationEnvironmental ChangeSea Level RiseSpecies Extinction Author:Shailesh Rao
“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.” FirstsHumansGivenDifficultEconomicDevelopmentModelsFirst TimeTasksClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingHuman HistoryEconomic DevelopmentDifficult Tasks Author:Christiana Figueres
“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.” PeopleLongImportantActionDifficultTermChallengesCasesIssuesTrumpBenefitsThreatClimateClimate ChangeInternationalDecadesLong TermBroadsUrgent Author:Martin Rees
“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.” ThinkingYearsBelieveMeanReasonProblemMightActionLastsDifficultEconomyEconomicModernCostMajorsHundredOppositesScientistClimateClimate ChangeReactionsAtmosphereCarbonPhysicistConsensusPumpsStaggeringCarbon DioxideFreemanUndoingGreat ScientistMajor Problems Author:Charles Krauthammer