“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
“In the current febrile climate Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump needs Isis.” NeedsTrumpClimateCurrentsIsis Author:Jack Dromey
“Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit... And Mayor Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.” BelieveBigsBitsSidesStruggleMiddleTrumpRepublicanGunDemocraticClintonClimateClimate ChangeFormerGun ControlModeratesLanesMayorsCruz Author:Don Gonyea
“I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful.” IfsThinkingWorldKindLongImportantWarMomentsFactsChoicesWinningSleepViewsPowerfulFineTrumpWeaponsClintonClimateBoxesNuclearNuclear WeaponsExistentialPowerlessExpanding Author:Jill Stein
“For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.” IfsWayImportantCareFallLevelsIssuesSeaFeetTrumpClimateClimate ChangeDearCeaseIceShelvesImportant IssuesGreenlandSea Level Rise Author:Moby
“If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.” IfsWorldLooksPoliticalWalksTrumpSpeechEuropeSeriesClimateSoldierIsisPrecursor Author:David Brooks
“The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think by temperament he is unqualified to be president. I think his views - you have a guy who's running for president who rejects science, doesn't even believe climate change is real, let alone wants to do something about it, wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent.” ThinkingWantGivingMindBelieveDoeTwoRealStatesRunningGuyPresidentUnitedViewsBreakUnited StatesFocusTrumpTaxesPercentDollarsClimateClimate ChangeBillionsRejectsTemperamentUnqualifiedTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.” WarWholeTrumpProgramClintonClimateFasterDamageFracking Author:Jill Stein
“Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.” ThinkingRealTrumpClimateClimate ChangeChineseHoaxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“Republican politicians are contributed to heavily by climate change, global warming, environmentalist wackos. That's how they're brought on board with this, and that's why an outsider like Trump is so appealing to so many people.” PeopleTrumpPoliticianRepublicanClimateClimate ChangeBoardsGlobal WarmingOutsidersEnvironmentalist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As for LGBTQ people supporting Donald Trump (or other Republicans), I do understand that some of them value his stances on immigration, climate change (I should say "the war on coal"), and the economy over those of equality, fairness, and justice.” PeopleShouldWarValuesJusticeEconomyTrumpRepublicanClimateClimate ChangeImmigrationFairnessCoalStance Author:Steven Petrow
“Donald Trump believes that climate change is a hoax. Now, this is not just a stupid expression, but it is incredibly dangerous.” BelieveDangerousStupidExpressionTrumpClimateClimate ChangeHoaxes Author:Bernie Sanders