Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

Let's work together to make our economies strong and our climate sustainable. It can be done.

Forward-thinking energy policies protect our environment and drive our economy, strengthening businesses both small and large.

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

I think we can compete with high-wage countries, and I believe we should. New jobs and clean energy, not only to fight climate change, which is a serious problem, but to create new opportunities and new businesses.

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.

The truth is that transitioning to clean energy like wind and solar will create millions of new, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and spur economic growth - all while avoiding the inevitable, significant damages our economy will suffer should we keep building more pipelines.

I believe in the Green New Deal. Fundamentally, what we recognize is that we don't have to choose between protecting our planet and growing our economy and creating jobs and opportunity.

Climate change is a matter of great peril but also one of great promise. We can pioneer the industries of the future, create millions of good-paying jobs, and build the clean energy economy of the future.

We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential.

To me, what's really important about the Green New Deal isn't, like, one of the elements of it: it's the concept. It's the concept that we have a national emergency commensurate with a depression or a war. And then the second part of it, the concept that, in rising to meet that challenge, there's a ton of economic opportunity.

To be able to transform societies and economies to low-carbon ones was an amazing challenge. To influence and to facilitate such an important transformation in the world would be like witnessing something of industrial revolution proportions.

With the economy and the environment situated as two pillars of the country's growth, my administration will make the utmost effort to achieve a green society.

We will continue to look for innovative solutions to combat the climate crisis, grow our economy, and leave behind a healthier world for our children.

By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.