David Harewood Quotes

Why do today's non-stop shocks -- why don't they spur us into action? Why don't they produce leaps? Especially when it comes to climate change.

I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. We must hand it over to our children in as near pristine condition as we were lent it from our parents.

If we don't act now ..., we're going to have a very, very lost generation.

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.

No challenge is more of a threat to our children than global warming.

I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.

Maybe this isn't a common thought that goes through one's mind when considering children, but I think about the ramifications of climate change and how the extreme weather conditions will only get worse as we keep drilling for oil and fracking for natural gas. Do I want to bring a little human into that mix?

Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

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

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.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

I think climate change is probably the most extreme, and it's been going on for years because it's very difficult to talk about a planetary issue like climate change and to get people who live within four-year electoral cycles to actually pay attention to something that you predict is happening way in the future.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

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