Morgan Freeman Quotes

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

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 the greatest threat of our time.

If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

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.

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

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

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

Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.

Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

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

If we don't figure out global warming, we're not going to be able to be here.

All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

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 has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.

At least 3,527 U.S. monthly records for heat, rain, and snow were broken in 2012. We can't let this continue unchecked, and we don't have to.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

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

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

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.

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