Climate Quotes

“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.”
― George Monbiot

“Keep an open mind and try some new methods.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Try things out, be happy to make mistakes, but above all have a go.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“Once your soil is fertile and weed-free, everything else becomes easier.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.”
― Tony Blair

“When it comes to our world and existential risks, we face the “Big UN”: UNcoordinated, UNaccountable, UNprepared, and UNderinvested.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“In a systemic world, there is no such thing as discrete or isolated events - impacts cascade and spill over. Drivers of disruption collide, intersect, and amplify.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Disclosures that quantify climate risks can help realign decision-making towards building a resilient climate economy. This creates positive feedback loops to drive further adaptive measures.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“We define Greenaissance as an era of renewal with momentous innovation and investment opportunities aligned across fields with the common objective of sustainable energy transition.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“The cow is facing its own existential crisis, as industrial cattle farming is being disrupted by alt proteins and plant-based milks that offer alternatives.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“We’re on the brink of collapse, my friends! They’ve put us into this mess and now can’t find their way out. Starvation, flooding, cold, and who knows what else. We’re on the edge of extinction! It’s not just about the valley anymore, it’s about our species!”
― Antonio Melonio, Echoes of Tyranny: Freedom Lost

“Four Pillars of Sustainability Models (4PoSM): ascertain, obtain, attain, maintain.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Lead the sustainability so innovatively that it becomes a case study, setting examples.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Own sustainability; for we owe it, to generations to come.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Retain, maintain or do whatever else it takes to sustain.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Great problem, greater opportunity. For climate change, Sustainability is the opportunity. But how?”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Sustainability is circular, so should be the services.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Rather than “People, planet and profit”; the Sustainability base should be, “People, planet and prospect of both.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and our climate might be doomed. But everything we did mattered. All of it.

We now know that we're going to keep global temperature rise below the most dangerous tipping points that climate scientists warned us about a decade ago. We can look our kids in the eye and tell them we didn't let them down. Now we can watch their dreams unfold.”
― Mary Anne Hitt

“What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some promised land; it is the series of imperfect victories along the way that edge us closer to building the critical mass that eventually shifts the status quo.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

“Still, on some level far below, under layers upon layers of reality, not yet in the collective consciousness of the people of the valley, they felt, they knew, that it was all ending. The earth was unraveling. Slowly, at first, and then faster and faster in a cascade of death.”
― Antonio Melonio, Echoes of Tyranny: Freedom Lost

“He looked outside, at the trees and plants, struggling against the primal forces of the earth, opposing the rains and winds. Every day a new struggle, a new war, but why? There was decay among them already — the leaves turning shades of gold, yellow, orange, and red, some with bold greenish strokes still running down their lines. Those were the strong ones, he thought, yet they too tremble in the wind, holding onto life with a tenuous grip. They could not win and neither could he.”
― Antonio Melonio, Echoes of Tyranny: Freedom Lost

“2. Thou shall not fear the cold.
So many coorie activities involve being outdoors: hiking demands a steely core and constitution, exploring the woods for crafty finds requires sturdy footwear - even skiing in the Cairngorms requires patience.
All these pursuits offer the chance to clear the mind and get to know the country from within.
Wild swimming in Scottish lochs is having a moment.
Its beauty, swimmers claim, lies in the restorative nature of an ice-cold dip set against a backdrop of Scotland's most idyllic scenery.
Nobody promised Barbadian temperatures, or clear blue seas, but for enthusiasts the appeal lies in testing yourself to your furthest limits.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Pollution drives gender changing.”
― Steven Magee

“Capital is at risk; now primarily due to climate risk.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Climate Flip - Climate Risk Reporting In Banks

“Mínevudottír may have felt free; but she was a cog in a land-snatching, resource-sucking, climate-fucking imperialist machine.”
― Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

“Коли майже кожен кліматолог у світі визнає, що клімат Землі швидко змінюється внаслідок діяльності людства і що ­потрібно негайно щось зробити, щоби запобігти катастрофічним наслідкам, медіа не повинні шукати заперечників змін кліма­ту для надання «аргументів іншої сторони». Бо в такому разі в публіки складається враження, наче обидва погляди однаково правильні. Крім вагомості наукових доказів на свою користь, відмінність між тим, хто стверджує, що антропогенна зміна клімату реальна, і тим, хто заперечує це, полягає в тому, що перший справді сподівається, що помиляється.”
― Джим Аль-Халілі, Світ очима фізика

“We don't need to build a wall. We need to build a fucking drain! Climate Change is real!”
― Quentin R. Bufogle