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DemocracyNow Official Title: This Is Not a Climate Solution: Indigenous Land Defender Warns Senate Bill Will [...]

By Green Earth|2022-08-11T14:43:33-04:00August 11, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, News & Information, Solutions|Tags: Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow, ishop William Barber, Juan González, Robert Weissman, Tara Houska|0 Comments

“All We Can Save”: As Climate Disasters Wreck Our Planet, Women Leaders Are Key to Solving the Crisis

(Re-post) As the impacts of the climate emergency continue to be felt around the globe, white men [...]

By cCc|2022-07-20T00:21:52-04:00July 20, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Solutions, Women|Tags: DemocracyNow, Urgency|Comments Off

Bill McKibben: Record Heat Wave in Europe Is Latest Warning That Action on Climate Can’t Wait

DemocracyNow Interview: A scorching heat wave continues to fuel wildfires across southern Europe and parts of North [...]

By cCc|2022-07-18T14:04:19-04:00July 18, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Heatwave, News & Information|Tags: Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, DemocracyNow, Urgency|0 Comments

“We Created the Pandemicene”: Ed Yong on How the Climate Crisis Could Spark the Next Pandemic

Climate change is forcing animal migrations at an unprecedented scale, bringing many previously disconnected species into close [...]

By cCc|2022-05-02T17:19:57-04:00May 8, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Disease, Health|Tags: Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow, Ed Yong, Urgency|0 Comments

World Risks Losing 1 in 5 Reptile Species as Human Activity Destroys Ecosystems, Says Report Author

We speak with one of the leaders of a new study that finds one in five reptiles [...]

By cCc|2022-05-02T20:50:39-04:00May 8, 2022|Categories: Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Emergency, Reptile Species|Tags: Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow, Leslie Rissler, Urgency|0 Comments

Climate Injustice: Those Who Face Record Heat Wave in India & Pakistan Did Not Create the Crisis

We speak with a leading Indian climate scientist about the punishing heat wave that produced the hottest [...]

By cCc|2022-07-26T17:02:47-04:00May 8, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Critical, Fossil Fuels, Heatwave|Tags: Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow|0 Comments

“Too Little, Too Late”: Global South Activists Decry 2050 “Net Zero” Goal by Wealthy Nations

Please read some of the viewers comments as well... After nearly a week of speeches, negotiations and [...]

By cCc|2022-07-25T23:40:27-04:00April 22, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Leadership, News & Information|Tags: DemocracyNow|0 Comments

Floods, Fires & Heat Waves: Michael Mann on “The New Climate War” & the Fight to Take Back the Planet

We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis around [...]

By cCc|2022-04-14T20:47:18-04:00April 21, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, News et Information, Scientists|Tags: Climate Denial, DemocracyNow, Michael Mann, Urgency|Comments Off

Making a Killing: Big Oil Reaps Record Profits Using Ukraine War as Pretext to Hike Gas Prices

House Democrats grilled CEOs of Big Oil companies, like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, Wednesday about rising gas [...]

By cCc|2022-04-07T16:14:27-04:00April 8, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Fossil Fuels, War|Tags: Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, DemocracyNow, Urgency|0 Comments

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Maxine Hong Kingston
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
David Suzuki
“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”
Christian de Duve
“The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, 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.”
Frances Beinecke
“I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.”
Al Gore
“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.”
Barack Obama
“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way.”
Ban Ki-moon
“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course”.
Juan Manuel Santos
“Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, and I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.”
Yuval Noah Harari
“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.”
Ban Ki-moon
“The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels and we need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.”
Sir Nicholas Stern
“Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.”
Noam Chomsky
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
Terri Swearingen
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.”
David King
“Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism.”
Marco Lambertini
“A planet being pushed to the edge will eventually turn on us.”
Paul Krugman
“The planet will continue to cook.”
Aldo Leopold
“The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.”
Wallace Broecker
“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.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.”
Al Gore
“We are running out of time, and we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.”