42 Quotes by James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.