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Men argue. Nature acts.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

Of course climate change is real.

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

The antidote to climate change is community.

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

The government can't change the weather.

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

There is no high-carbon future

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

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

There must be more to life than having everything.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

We are now running out of time.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

Another common recommendation is to turn lights off when you leave a room, but lighting accounts for only 3% of household energy use, so even if you used no lighting at all in your house you would save only a fraction of a metric ton of carbon emissions. Plastic bags have also been a major focus of concern, but even on very generous estimates, if you stopped using plastic bags entirely you'd cut out 10kg CO2eq per year, which is only 0.4% of your total emissions. Similarly, the focus on buying locally produced goods is overhyped: only 10% of the carbon footprint of food comes from transportation whereas 80% comes from production, so what type of food you buy is much more important than whether that food is produced locally or internationally. Cutting out red meat and dairy for one day a week achieves a greater reduction in your carbon footprint than buying entirely locally produced food. In fact, exactly the same food can sometimes have higher carbon footprint if it's locally grown than if it's imported: one study found that the carbon footprint from locally grown tomatoes in northern Europe was five times as great as the carbon footprint from tomatoes grown in Spain because the emissions generated by heating and lighting greenhouses dwarfed the emissions generated by transportation.

We don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

A less negative carbon ideologue then I might interpret the lonely wariness of Mr. Winkler and of Sharon Carlisle as proof of wrongheaded irrelevance. Socrates was equally irrelevant once the Athenians had served him his hemlock. The insipidities of the hollowed out Greeley Tribune, the no comment of most people to whom I “reached out,” and the typical anomie of an American metropolis, whose citizens I rarely saw except in their cars, in retail establishments or at the Fourth of July parade, operated synergistically to create the usual hot wide silence—about fracking, climate change, democracy and every other thing. A certain form of economic development held sway, and that was that.