Sierra Club president emeritus Dave Scott, tweeting in response to a report in the New York Times that the Trump administration is making good on its threat to eliminate Obama-era rules limiting emissions of methane from leaks and flares in U.S. oil and gas wells (August 10).
[The Democrats’] agenda is shaping up to have two defining features. The first is reducing inequality . . . The second is acting on climate change.”
NY Times columnist David Leonhardt, It’s 2022. What Does Life Look Like?, July 10.
if you’re distressed by the devastating costs of covid-19 wherever officials have dismissed and denied the science and public health warnings — wait til you see the vastly greater costs of the same officials’ same dismissal and denial of climate change.”
New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch), on Twitter, July 2.
I and other activists in my community are focused on issues that feel like immediate life or death, like the environment.”
Scranton, Pa. resident Kaitlin Ahern, 19, quoted in June 30 NY Times story, ‘I Can’t Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying’, about younger U.S. women’s lower prioritization of abortion rights vis-a-vis other justice issues.
In one of the stupidest statements in history, Trump just said ‘if we didn’t do any testing, we’d have very few cases’ of the pandemic coronavirus. Thus introducing the Republican solution to #climatechange: just stop reading the thermometers.”
Peter Gleick (co-founder, Pacific Institute; MacArthur “genius award” recipient; member, National Academy of Sciences), via Twitter, May 15.
If you wait until you are absolutely sure a worst-case scenario could happen, you have almost certainly missed the chance to avoid it.”
Journalist David-Wallace Wells (“The Uninhabitable Earth“), discussing the COVID-19 crisis, on Twitter, March 17.
We have seen the unfolding wings of climate change.”
Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, quoted in “The End of Australia as We Know It,” by Damien Cave, New York Times, February 16.
The dangers of climate change are no longer predictions about the future.”
NY Times op-ed columnist (and 2008 Nobel laureate in economics) Paul Krugman, in “Apocalypse Becomes the New Normal,” The New York Times, January 2.
Until there are penalties for emitting carbon, clean alternatives will just meet new energy demand. They are not currently displacing ‘fossil fuel use to any great extent’ and will not in the future.”
Robinson Meyer, commenting on three linked articles by the Global Carbon Project, in 5 Big Trends That Increased Earth’s Carbon Pollution, The Atlantic, Dec. 3. The quote is from the project’s article in Nature Climate Change (links are in the Atlantic article).
The next U.S. president can save more lives and better improve human health by slowing climate change than by improving health insurance.”
New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, in The Most Pressing Issue for Our Next President Isn’t Medicare, October 27.
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