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This could be the coolest summer of the rest of your life

Summer started with an oppressive heat wave. Get used to it. Summer only just started, but much [...]

By cCc|2022-06-23T13:59:53-04:00June 23, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Critical, Heatwave|Tags: Urgency, VOX, vox.com|0 Comments

The surprisingly subtle recipe making heat waves worse…

Heat domes, heat islands, mega-droughts, and climate change: the anatomy of worsening heat waves. The Pacific Northwest [...]

By cCc|2022-07-20T00:06:27-04:00July 1, 2021|Categories: Climate Emergency, Health, Heatwave|Tags: Umair Irfan, Urgency, VOX|Comments Off

How to cool a city without air conditioning…

As a record-breaking heat wave settled over the Pacific Northwest in June, a climate researcher named Vivek Shandas took [...]

By cCc|2022-07-24T19:26:35-04:00July 1, 2021|Categories: Climate Emergency, Heatwave, Ideas|Tags: Urgency, VOX|Comments Off

This popular and proven climate policy should be at the top of Congress’s to-do list

The case for a national clean electricity standard. Last year, presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigned on a [...]

By cCc|2022-07-23T17:02:36-04:00February 5, 2021|Categories: Climate Emergency, Ideas, Renewable Energy|Tags: Leah Stokes, Sam Ricketts, Urgency, VOX|Comments Off

Three ways fossil fuel companies try to trick the public…

How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change Three ways fossil [...]

By cCc|2022-07-23T16:49:49-04:00February 3, 2021|Categories: Climate Emergency, Climate Justice, Renewable Energy|Tags: Jariel Arvin, Urgency, VOX|Comments Off

The Green New Deal, explained (YouTube)

What's actually in the Green New Deal? Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab The Green New Deal [...]

By cCc|2019-06-13T00:31:17-04:00June 13, 2019|Categories: Climate Emergency, Green New Deal|Tags: Video, VOX|Comments Off

The Green New Deal, explained

Update, 3/30/2019: Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced a Green New Deal resolution on February 7 that lays [...]

By cCc|2019-04-01T18:36:18-04:00April 1, 2019|Categories: Climate Emergency, Green New Deal|Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ed Markey, VOX|Comments Off

Report: we have just 12 years to limit devastating global warming

We have just 12 years to make massive and unprecedented changes to global energy infrastructure to limit [...]

By cCc|2018-10-09T00:40:43-04:00October 9, 2018|Categories: Climate Emergency, Green New Deal, SDGs|Tags: Umair Irfan, Urgency, VOX|Comments Off

No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously

One of the morbidly fascinating aspects of climate change is how much cognitive dissonance it generates, in [...]

By cCc|2017-04-29T00:48:33-04:00April 29, 2017|Categories: Climate Emergency, Green New Deal, SDGs|Tags: David Roberts, Urgency, VOX|Comments Off

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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.”