Appropriate Quotations on Climate Change

“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.”
David Attenborough from Sunday Times

"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
Thomas Edison (1847–1931)

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
President John F Kennedy

"In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It’s how can we use humans to serve nature’s interest?’"
William McDonough

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world”
Gandhi

"If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being".
Joanna Macy

"All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake."
Norman Cousins

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!”
Marcus Aurelius

“You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
Sir Edmund Hillary, Mountaineer

"Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible choices, for us and our children."
Peter Ewins, British Meteorological Office

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
John F. Kennedy

"In the year 2065, on current trends, damage from climate change will exceed global GDP."
Andrew Dlugolecki, General Insurance Development