“The dominant discourses about the nature of the climate threat are scientific and economic. But the deepest challenge is ethical.”
— Stephen M. Gardiner: A Perfect Moral Storm
“What the people want is clean air and water, and a future for their children that is not rendered dystopian by climate change.”
— James Thornton & Martin Goodman: Client Earth
“The economy is an environmental pyramid scheme, dumping its liabilities on the young and the unborn. Its current growth depends on inter-generational theft. ”
— George Monbiot: Capitalism is destroying the Earth. We need a new human right for future generations (Guardian 15-3-2019)
“The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible.”
— US Vice President Al Gore - 1993 Interview with Bill McKibben
“Education means better health for women and their children, better financial security, greater agency at home and in society, more capacity to navigate a climate-changing world. Education can mean options, adaptability, strength. It can also mean lower emissions.”
— Dr Katharine Wilkinson: How Empowering Women and Girls can Help Stop Global Warming (TED Talk)
“A society cannot hope to arrive at agreement about everything before it acts. One purpose of our democratic political system is to mediate between people’s different opinions. However the moral philosophy of climate change progresses, it will in fact be the political system that determines what we do about climate change.”
— John Broome: Ethics in a Warming World
“None of this matters to Exxon, because they don’t need to win the debate, they just need to make it seem like there is one.”
— Geoffrey Supran: Testimony to EU Parliament, March 22nd 2019
“Billions of people still fall short of their basic needs, but we have already crossed into ecological danger zones that profoundly risk undermining Earth’s benevolent stability”
