Jim Yong Kim Quotes

Climate change is a reality.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

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

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

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

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.