Climate change has been a part of Earth’s geological history. This indicates that the mean annual temperature of the planet has increased and decreased by several degrees Celsius over the past million years. Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC’s) Special Report 1.5 C observes that ‘human activities have caused approximately 1 C of global warming above pre-industrial levels’.
Climate Change has become a globally pervasive problem and it adversely affects human health due to an increase in vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue etc. As per the IPCC’s Special Report 1.5 C, about 100 million people are projected to go into poverty by the end of the century through impacts on agriculture, food prices, food insecurity and hunger, income losses, lost livelihood opportunities, adverse health impacts and population displacements. Thus, climate change does not just compromise present human well-being but also jeopardises future possibilities of achieving sustainable development. It is important to recognise these interlinkages between climate change and threats to sustainable development for effective climate action.
We should all come forward to stop climate change. It requires massive awareness generation amongst all the stakeholders including industry, people and Government. Thanks to many environmental think tanks and organisations like the UN, awareness is on the rise. And this has encouraged many people to make positive changes for the climate change reduction.
In such cases, Quotes play an important role in motivating people very easily to stop climate change.
In this article, I have provided 60 Amazing and Famous climate change quotes to take action for our earth. I hope these quotes on climate change will be ideal for inspiring people to take action and do so immediately. You can use these quotes in your social media posts to promote your climate change message to future generations.
60 Amazing And Famous Quotes on Climate Change -
- “On Climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem, We think it is a problem waiting to happen.” - Kofi Annan
- “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall
- “Climate change is real. It is happening right now, it is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” - Leonardo Di Caprio
- “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it’s common sense.” - Ronald Reagan
- “We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.” - Maya Angelou
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
- “Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody’s going to buy their way out of its effects.” - Mark Ruffalo.
- “Together we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these our children.” - Chico Mendes
- “The main solution is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop the emission of greenhouse gases.” - Greta Thunberg
- “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved it deserves to be a huge priority.” - Bill Gates
- “I hope to use my celebrity to motivate people and contribute to moving our global society back from the brink. I am surprised the environment is not at the top of the agenda. What is more important than good and clean air?” - Don Cheadle
- “The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” - Lady Bird Johnson.
- “These young people are saying we all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener. That must be our legacy.” - John Lewis
- “ When enough people come together, then change will come and we can achieve almost anything. So instead of looking for hope - Start creating it.” - Greta Thunberg.
- “It’s important for me to have hope because that’s my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we’re not going to leave them in a world that’s in shambles, that’s a chaotic place, that’s a dangerous place.” - James Cameron.
- “Keep close to Nature’s heart.. and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” - Jon Muir
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein
- “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” - Jimmy Carter
- “Let’s double down on solar energy, let’s be more energy-efficient, let’s weatherize our homes. We can build a better, healthier economy based on good-paying, clean energy jobs.” - Lan Somerhalder.
- “A nation destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “ We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It’s life or death.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- “The climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win.” - Antonio Guterres
- “A vibrant fair, and regenerative future is possible - not when thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of people do the best they can.” - Xiye Bastida
- “By polluting the oceans, not mitigating carbon dioxide emissions and destroying our biodiversity, we are killing our planet. Let us face it, there is no planet B.” - Emmanuel Macron
- “The earth is what we all have in common.” - Wendell Berry
- “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” - Robert Swan
- “We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.” - Barack Obama
- “Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.” - Greta Thunberg.
- “Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.” - Al Gore
- “We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.” - Yuval Noah Harari
- “ I hold a vision of this blue-green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - As momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.” - Elizabeth May
- “This is not a partisan Debate; it is a human one. Clean air and water a livable climate. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics. It is our moral obligation.” - Leonardo DiCaprio
- “Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about sustainable development.”- Angele Markel
- “Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality, it is about changes in our very way of life.” - Paul Polman
- “The world is reaching the tipping point beyond which climate change may become irreversible. If this happens, we risk denying present and future generations the right to a healthy and sustainable planet - the whole of humanity stands to lose.” -Kofi Annan
- “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.” - Conrad Anker
- “Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, at the same time, addressing the climate challenge presents a golden opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.” - Ban Ki-Moon
- “We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it.” - Jay Inslee
- “Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.” – Desmond Tutu.
- “Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.” - John F. Kerry
- “Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.” - Malcolm Turnbull
- “I’m often asked whether I believe in global warming. I now just reply with the question: Do you believe in gravity? - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Pollution and climate change by excessive burning of fossil fuels are real threats, not the people who warn that we must take these threats seriously.” - David Suzuki
- “Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” - Bill Nye
- “While the problem can sometimes seem overwhelming, we can turn things around - but we must move beyond climate talk to climate action.” - Ted Turner
- “Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.” -Frances Beinecke
- “It’s not that the world hasn’t had more carbon dioxide, it’s not that the world hasn’t been warmer. The problem is the speed at which things are changing. We are inducing a sixth mass extinction event kind of by accident and we don’t want to be the ‘extinct.’” - Bill Nye
- “People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.” - Desmond Tutu
- “It’s not climate change that needs to be tackled. It is the political power of the fossil fuel industry.” - Richard Dennis
- “We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.” - Sir, David Attenborough.
- “The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crisis, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.” - Christian de Duve
- “The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us.” - George Monbiot.
- “Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.” - Tony Blair
- “The climate is changing. The proper political debate would be how to deal with these risks.” - Steven Chu
- “Climate change is a huge challenge, but it can be brought in line if governments, businesses and individuals work together.” - Sir Richard Branson
- “We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” - Elon Musk.
- “Climate change is a lot like death. We all understand it’s inevitable, but few of us truly accept it.” – Brian McDermott
- “Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody’s going to buy their way out of its effects.” - Mark Ruffalo
- “The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” - Ernest Hemingway
- “Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.” - Lewis Gordon Pugh
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