Archive for the ‘Green Quote’ Category

• Occupy Earth: Nature is the 99%, too

  “Tearing apart wildlife habitat to make a profit and doing the same at a workplace are just considered the price of doing business. Clearcutting a forest and clearcutting a labor force are two sides of the same coin.”

• Nuclear safety expert explains why he became anti-nuclear and pro-solar

  The Italian nuclear engineer and safety expert Cesare Silvi explains why he left his former pro-nuclear stance for solar and other renewable energy sources: “I soon came to the conclusion that neither international cooperation nor technological advancements would guarantee human …

• Wangari Maathai warns about resource conflicts: “If the rivers stop flowing, people will fight”

  Wednesday the 6th of July 2011 Wangari Maathai received a honorary doctorate at Copenhagen University and spoke about her work with the Green Belt movement, the Taking Roots movie and more. Watch her speech, I recorded it for you. [15:39] …

• Fossil fuel expansion is a crime against humanity

  Marc Lee who is the senior economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and chair of the Progressive Economics Forum writes in one of his latest articles that we should see fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity. …

• “This may be the only political issue whose results could be catastrophic permanently”

  Here is a quick quote from Tom Toles, a pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist at the Washington Post, about the ongoing “climate debate”: “We are apparently going to let the debate on the science run until hell freezes over. If you …

• What price will children have to pay for three or four carbon-happy generations?

  Photo credit: Julien Harneis Lord David Puttnam, ambassador for Unicef UK, asks on BBC’s Green Room what kind of price our children and future generations will have to pay for “the three or four carbon-happy generations that have lived before …

• James Lovelock: “I hope we are civilised when climate disaster strikes”

  The Inter Press Service has an interesting interview with James Lovelock, known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, about everything from the IPCC to geo-engineering and climate tipping points. Lovelock has earlier said that he believes that climate change is now …

• Australian Green Senator Milne speech: “climate nightmare is real and happening NOW”

  The Australian Green senator Christine Milne, the first female leader of a political party in Tasmania’s history, delivered this speech to the Australian National Press Club this past week. Key quote from the speech: “The truth is the climate nightmare …

• Nicholas Stern: Climate change will create billions of refugees, extended world war

  Lord Nicholas Stern, British economist and academic who is most known for the Stern Review said, during an improvised speech at a Cape Town hotel in South Africa, that if we don’t act quickly and determinedly to address climate change …

• Green Quote of the Week: James Hansen on Coal River Mountain

  Photo credit: World Development Movement Top US climate scientist Dr James Hansen shares his thoughts about Coal River Mountain and Barack Obama’s coal policy in general in a letter titled: “Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain“. “Coal River Mountain …