Naomi Klein Quotes

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

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

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.

Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

We will respond to the threat of climate change

Climate change is a matter of great peril but also one of great promise. We can pioneer the industries of the future, create millions of good-paying jobs, and build the clean energy economy of the future.

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.