Quotes and Sayings about Climate Change

We don't have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It's life or death.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David Suzuki

Society

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

John F. Kerry

With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet.

António Guterres - December 2022

Trash & Garbage

We are a plague on the Earth.

David Attenborough

In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones. And it's time to act!

Joe Biden - January 2021

Conservation & Environment Protection

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

David Attenborough

You see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.

Jigo in Princess Mononoke

Greed

We have to do what we can to stop climate change.

Vladimir Putin - December 2019

Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.

John F. Kerry

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Bill Nye

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Earth

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Joe Biden (as Vice President of the United States) - Mai 2014

Conservation & Environment Protection

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Change the System! Not the Climate!

Conservation & Environment Protection Fridays for Future

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

King Charles III

Conservation & Environment Protection

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.

Rishi Sunak

Conservation & Environment Protection

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Humanity Animals Conservation & Environment Protection

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Conservation & Environment Protection

To love the world is to be afflicted.

Yunus Emre

Conservation & Environment Protection

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

David Attenborough

Nature & Environment Conservation & Environment Protection Air

Protecting the climate and nature is one of the biggest challenges of our time that we can only tackle together.

Olaf Scholz - September 2020

Conservation & Environment Protection

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Evo Morales

Earth Conservation & Environment Protection

I don't accept the Republicans' argument that boldly addressing climate change and having the world's strongest economy are incompatible. I believe that the exact opposite of that is true. Tackling our climate challenges will provide us with the opportunity to grow our economy, protect public health, and propel the United States to become the world leader in green innovation in the 21st century.

Elizabeth Warren

Conservation & Environment Protection

This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist)

Conservation & Environment Protection

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist) - September 2019, Rede beim UN Klimagipfel

2019 Conservation & Environment Protection

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist)

2019 Conservation & Environment Protection Fridays for Future

This is money well spent. If we ignore climate change, it's gonna cost us a lot more.

Angela Merkel - September 2019

Conservation & Environment Protection

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

George Lucas

Greed Jedi

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

John F. Kerry

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

John F. Kerry

The ocean is a source of inspiration, wonder, and awe. Diving allows us to tap into that inspiration and to experience the world in a whole new way.

David Attenborough

Diving

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

David Attenborough

Earth

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

Joe Biden - August 2024

2024

You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world.

Joe Biden - July 2024

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-Confidence

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

Indira Gandhi

Tolerance World

One guy's business plan for a $44 billion over-leveraged purchase is apparently to run around and individually ask people for $8. Remember that next time you question yourself or your qualifications.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez - November 2022, via Twitter

X / Twitter

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

David Suzuki

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

This must be an opportunity to start bridging divides and restoring trust, based on the equal rights and freedoms of every single member of humanity's eight-billion-strong family.

António Guterres - December 2022

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can.

John Sexton (Photographer)

Photography Trash & Garbage

Lady Eboshi: "What exactly are you here for?"
Prince Ashitaka: "To see with eyes unclouded by hate."

Prince Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke

The western Countries lie recklessly, like Goebbels: the more incredible the lie, the faster they will believe in it.

Vladimir Putin - September 2022

Russia-Ukraine War

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Bill Nye

Science

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.

Stephen Colbert

Earth

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