261 Quotes About Global-warming

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. This hypothetical Martian would probably conclude that human beings were an evolutionary error.

Humanity has overcome the food chain, and having surpassed all other predators, has now turned to a strange form of cannibalism: humanity preys upon itself. We cull our own herd. We murder our own children. This is what we call “progress”.

The Earth keeps turning, night and day, spit-roasting all the tannedTired icebergs and polar bears, making white almost contraband.The biosphere on a rotisserie emits a certain soundThat tells the stars that Earth was moaning pleasure while it drowned.— "Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin

The nay-sayers insist loudly that they're "climate sceptics", but this is a calculated misnomer – scientific scepticism is the method of investigating whether a particular hypothesis is supported by the evidence. Climate sceptics, by contrast, persist in ignoring empirical evidence that renders their position untenable. This isn't scepticism, it's unadulterated denialism, the very antithesis of critical thought.

Climate change means we need to change.

It’s the fish I feel sorry for, in all this global warming. They don’t even have a carbon footprint.

Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.

Ignoring global warming is like crossing a road blindfolded.

Climate change is not just a problem for the future. It is impacting us every day, everywhere.