Desmond Tutu Quotes

We will respond to the threat of climate change

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

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

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

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.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

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].

I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.

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

It is not easy to attain carbon neutrality by 2050.

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

Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

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

We don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

I have great respect for Bernie Sanders, there was a moment where he opposed the Paris Deal... I was frustrated with him, but he and I have a very good relationship... and I have great affection for him, but I do think when he criticized the Paris agreement, I didn't think it was the right position.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.

Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.