Gina McCarthy Quotes

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

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

The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.

I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

Climate change is real and needs honest debate about measures to restrain and remediate it. But that would be serious. So instead we are told the planet is going to burn up and our only option is to reverse millennia of human progress. And our leaders spent the last few years trying to win the approval of an angry Swedish teenager.

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

I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

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

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia.