If you wake up to find that your house is flooding,
you don’t ignore it and set off to work because you’re worried about losing a day’s pay -
you start shifting sandbags.
Our dependence on fuel adds significant cost and puts US soldiers and contractors at risk.
Face facts: Climate change is unfolding as predicted
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
Extreme events are occurring with greater frequency, and in many cases with greater intensity.
While climate change alone does not cause conflict,
it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.
Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change,
because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past.
This means that we need to change the way we work, change the methods that we used in the past.
I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely
severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead.
They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.
There is no question that we need to get ahead of climate change. This is a wake-up call.
For years we’ve tried to ‘sell’ climate change, but a lot of people aren’t buying.
Threats of climate hell haven’t seemed to hold us back from running headlong towards it.
We must build a visual and compelling vision of low carbon heaven. And this vision must be desirable.
What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state,
all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.
If carbon dioxide continues to increase, the study group finds no reason to doubt that climate change will result and
no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible.
The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.
Climate change is best viewed as a threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and
instability. The core challenge is that climate change threatens to overburden states and regions
which are already fragile and conflict prone.
Desertification could trigger a vicious circle of
degradation, migration and conflicts over territory and borders that threatens the political stability of
countries and regions.
The recent sea-ice retreat is larger than in any of the (19) IPCC [climate] models.
The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation.
They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.
The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.
In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot.
This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming
and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant
and the first caused by human action.
I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point
beyond which they will break and then you will get a complete and massive change in the climate
in which the survival of human species might not be compatible.
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence,
to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.
