Quotes About Climate

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry.

Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.

Indeed, for all Donald Trump's railing about the efforts to curb climate change, nobody in his administration seems to have paid any attention to what they actually are.

Donald Trump has shouted 'hoax' hundreds of times, about everything from climate change to Supreme Court rulings to impeachment.

The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

The scale of forces, this time, is planetary; the scope is centuries; the stakes are what we call civilization; and it is all taking place at the headlong speed of self-accelerating human technologies and climatic turbulence. Talk of "saving the planet" is overstated, however. Earth will be fine, no matter what; so will life. It is humans who are in trouble. But since we got ourselves into this fix, we should be able to get ourselves out of it.

Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.

Too many younger Americans have been misled by the Green New Deal, which is a socialist manifesto more than a climate proposal. The GND's reckless energy policies would punish American workers while allowing China to pollute at will.

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

We will need to reach out to all those actors - to governments, to civil societies, to businesses - and help in mobilizing them to help in this fight against climate change.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Because of climate changes, it's not just a question of producing energy. It's a question of producing energy in a way that we can live with in the long term. If you look at the available pieces, from conservation to nuclear, solar, whatever, and you put them all together, we can't do it.