Satish Kumar Quotes

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you that Al Gore's 10-year plan is impossible. I'm old enough to remember the Second World War - if we had a World War II-type mobilization, we might accomplish Gore's plan. In 1940 we were making tens of thousands of automobiles, and in 1941 we were making tens of thousands of airplanes. We mobilized as a nation. If we get that kind of mobilization as a nation or globally, then we could solve a lot of these problems.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is groundbreaking. And together with the sustainable development goals of the agenda 2030 for the whole world, this is indeed a sea change, I think, that we see here, and, step-by-step, it will be implemented.

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

In my current work on global warming, I argue that the only apparent solution to the deep problem of climate change would require very large transfers of wealth from rich nations to poor nations, so that the entire world can make the transition to renewable forms of energy as fast as possible.

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.

I think that the world will continue trying to grapple with the climate problem, no matter who is U.S. president. But I think that, depending on who that president is, it can have a significant influence on the trajectory.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

Both of our nations [America and Germany] were proud to join the Paris Climate Agreement which the world should work to implement quickly. Continued global leadership on climate in addition to increasing private investment and clean energy is gonna be critical to meeting this growing threat.

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

I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources which do not generate the heat that is currently provided by fossil fuels. I concur that climate change is beginning to [have an] effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action.

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

People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.