#climate

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#cares #change #climate #climate change #expect

The climate continues to deteriorate. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#continues #deteriorate

We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #change #climate #climate change #construct

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #build #climate #companies #cutting-edge

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang. ↗

— Vera Wang

#become #climate #coast #fits #i

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cause #change #cheaply #climate #climate change

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. ↗

— Al Gore

#couple #crisis #extreme #frequency #increased

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case. ↗

— William Hague

#as far as #aware #cabinet #case #change