Ezra Furman Quotes

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Climate change is a sanctity of human life issue.

Global warming and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.

If 98 doctors say my son is ill and needs medication and two say, “No, he doesn’t, he is fine,’ I will go with the 98. It’s common sense-the same with global warming. We go with the majority, the large majority...The key thing now is that since we know this industrial age has created it, let’s get our act together and do everything we can to roll it back.

We now know beyond a doubt that global warming is a reality. And the question we must all answer is, what are we going to do about it?

Global warming is socialism in drag.

We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.

I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary.