At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?
While some politicians argue over whether to believe scientists’ almost overwhelming consensus on climate change, the business sector is a believer and is wisely planning ahead.
Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it’s all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it’s about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.
Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It’s easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.
It’s absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Every European country faces threats which ignore national frontiers: pandemics, climate change, terrorism and organised crime.
The world’s attention is increasingly focused on climate change. It threatens our economy, our environment and ultimately our families’ health and livelihoods. For coastal states like Oregon, the stakes are even higher.
The ‘Wall Street Journal’ is quite irate that I rank them with industry front groups and cranks denying climate change. But they have a record whenever industrial pollutants are involved. Look at the ‘Journal”s commentary on acid rain, on the ozone layer, and on climate change.
Climate change is real, and the fossil fuel industry is pouring tons and tons of money into campaign contributions. That’s something to be angry about.
Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders.
So when you’re dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as ‘we are all toast anyway,’ then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
Climate change poses a serious threat to global prosperity, security and wellbeing.
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day – at every meal.
The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change – but a piece of paper will not save the world. It is not ‘job done.’
Climate change is ravaging our cities – we can’t just let that happen.
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges,’ which require global solidarity.
I’m concerned that if we don’t do more to protect our open spaces and reduce climate change, there will be devastating and lasting impacts on us and future generations.
I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.
Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.
Obama has acted aggressively on the issue most important to my generation: climate change.
You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.
When I was in politics, I debated a Nobel Prize-winning economist, climate change activists, governors, senators, congressmen. I debated anybody on an issue I felt strongly about.
Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.
Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the ‘Britain standing alone’ motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.
We need new technology to fight climate change and that will come from the private sector.
Decarbonising our energy system is not some abstract regulatory requirement. It is an essential responsibility that we hold towards our children and grandchildren as the only way to effectively counter the threat of climate change.
Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I’d love is to have another Lyndon Johnson in Congress who makes climate change his first priority. We need people who know how to work the system and the institution.
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
California continues to lead the nation in the fight against climate change, and electrifying our transportation sector is the next game changer.
A credible and effective response to climate change – which protects future generations from an unacceptable level of risk – needs the involvement of all countries.
We will need to reach out to all those actors – to governments, to civil societies, to businesses – and help in mobilizing them to help in this fight against climate change.
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.
With an investment in our state’s energy infrastructure to capture methane, we will create jobs, increase revenue for our schools, and protect the health of workers and communities, all while reducing harmful emissions that are contributing to climate change.
Environmentalism is the powerful new secular religion and politically correct scientists are its high priests, rescuing the planet from the apocalypse of climate change, as the Doomsday clock ticks down.
It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.
Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.
Investing in resilience and sustainability programs is essential to stretching our limited water resources, ensuring safe drinking water for at-risk communities, and adapting to climate change.
George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we’ll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can’t even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.
Trump is surrounding himself with so many climate sceptics and when he himself says he thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax then there are real concerns.
George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.
We can’t take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don’t address climate change, we won’t be around as humans.
The basic science is very well established; it is well understood that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. What is uncertain is projections about specifics in the next few decades, by how much will the climate change.
Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.
No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.
We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change.
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods.
For too long, opponents of climate change have hid behind the argument that the U.S. cannot afford to cut carbon pollution because other countries won’t follow suit.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
California is a national leader in the fight against climate change and eliminating toxic pollution from our transportation sector because we have seen how polluted air endangers our communities.
