Climate Change
Quotes & Thinkers in Climate Change
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"I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."
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🇺🇸Orrin H. Pilkey
Science
1934–2024
"The objectivity of the IPCC documents is laudable. But the fact that the group recognizes its model weaknesses and is trying to improve them doesn't make its conclusions stronger or more believable. ."
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🇺🇸Michael E. Mann
Education
b. 1965
"...If we fail to act to bring down our carbon emissions over the next decade, this will lock in disastrous melting of the ice sheets, sea level rise, and a rise in devastating weather extremes down the road."
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🇺🇸Michelle Nijhuis
Medicine
b. 1974
2 quotes
🇺🇸Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Science
b. 1980
1 quotes
🇸🇪Greta Thunberg
Social Activism
Fridays for Future
b. 2003
"I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."
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🇺🇸Arkady Martine
Literature
b. 1985
"Urban planning is a long history of cities seeing, and deliberately not seeing, the people who live in them. Working in city planning makes me consider the city as an organism, as a machine for living in…"
4 quotes
🇬🇧Joanna Haigh
Education
b. 1954
"Without concerted and swift international action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, the 1.5°C threshold is likely to be passed by 2040 and the report sets out very starkly the costs of inaction."
6 quotes
🇫🇷Jean-Marc Jancovici
Politics
political ecology
b. 1962
"Material can follow a circular path, but energy can only add up. One of the challenges is that even "circular economy" needs "linear energy."
4 quotes
Notable Quotes
"May 2021 be the year of awakening and real bold change. And let's all continue the never-ending fight for the living planet."
— Greta Thunberg, b. 2003View →
"One person stops flying doesn’t make much difference. The thing we should look at is the emissions curve—it’s still rising. Of course something is happening, but basically nothing is happening. The change is going to come from the people demanding action, and that is us."
— Greta Thunberg, b. 2003View →
"You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess. Even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to your children."
— Greta Thunberg, b. 2003View →
"We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?"
— Greta Thunberg, b. 2003View →
"Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling."
— Greta Thunberg, b. 2003View →