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Climate Change Quotes
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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
– President John F. Kennedy
“It isn’t enough to do our best, sometimes we have to do what is required.”
– Winston Churchill
“Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. We all have to get involved.”
– Lester Brown
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth super highway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road – the one less traveled by – offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
– Rachel Carson
“The Department of Defense sees climate change as a present security threat. Although climate-related stress will disproportionately affect fragile and conflict-affected states, even resilient, well-developed countries are subject to the effects of climate change in significant and consequential ways.”
– National Security Implications of Climate-Related Risks and a Changing Climate, 23 July 2015
“Infinite gratitude for the past, infinite service to the present, infinite responsibility to the future.”
– Zen Buddhist mantra
“Soon, everyone will have to make the choice between what is right and what is easy.”
– Professor Dumbledore
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
– Martin Luther King
“For the Marshalls, for 39 atolls in the Federated States of Micronesia, for three atolls in Palau, for Maldives, for Tokelau– anything over two degrees is catastrophic.”
– Tony de Brum, Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands
“No matter what countries pledge in Paris, we’ll still be on track for a 3-degree rise in global temperatures.”
– Christiana Figueres U.N. Climate Chief
