Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.

The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

It has been acknowledged for many years the current level of human population growth is unsustainable and places acute pressure on global resources. Human activity is exacerbating global warming, and higher population levels inevitably mean higher emissions and more climate change victims.

Anybody who doesn't see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don't see the reality. It's so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

I was and am an ardent environmentalist and I am terrified of the instability that climate change will bring.

As hundreds of millions of Chinese have improved their standard of living, this has put enormous pressure on natural resources, raw materials, and food basics, among others.

Climate change has the potential to swallow up all other issues of development.

Climate change threatens serious economic disruption to us all with serious implications to global stability and the impact it will have on the whole of humanity.

Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed whether or not you'd have to take a gondola to the Empire State Building, and that sort of thing, but we didn't know at the time whether the climate change would be in the direction of heating or cooling. We just didn't know enough about it.

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.