#climate

I'd like to issue a call to realism for those of us in so-called developed industrial nations, who indulge in great horror at the gradual collapse of our own pathologically unsustainable mode of existence while ignoring the reality of the majority of this planet’s residents, who do not in fact share the same dread or anxiety about losing what most of them, frankly, never had to squander in the first place. ↗

— Brian Awehali

#climate-change #collapse #ecology #change

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. ↗

— Wallace Broecker

#global-warming #change

f we view climate changes as our enemy we will always be defeated, for climate will always change. Natural climate change is frequent, often extreme, and sometimes rapid. Industrial CO2 is a real problem just as you have heard, but it’s only a fragment of the whole story of climate. In other words, I’m not a global warming denier – I want to add to the discussion of climate change from the point of view of geology and natural change. What may matter most is not our carbon policies, but whether we invest in adaptive strategies that can serve us well when change inevitably arrives on our doorstep. ↗

— E. Kirsten Peters

#global-warming #science #change

Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis. ↗

— Maria Rodale

#climate-change #diet #nutrition #organic #change

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#blue #climate #island #live #mountains

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. ↗

— Mark Twain

#expect #get #weather

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#climate-change #earth #ecology #extinction #mountains

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fact #getting #me #no reason #reason

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#action #believed #bolshevism #change #climate

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