Naomi Klein Quotes

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

The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let's bundle them and install them.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

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

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that direction. And we have to do it fast.

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.

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.

What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do?

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?