A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
Bill McKibben
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The basic message is that global warming is already causing species extinctions and a lot of them. J. ALAN POUNDS We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in t... SENATOR JOHN KERRY The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS There is in fact no serious disagreement among scientists that human beings are playing a major role... ANDY CROUCH Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER We thought we live in a global warming world, but this is actually not right. We lived in a global w... BEATE LIEPERT The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering ... MICHAEL MOORE It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming;... JOHN COLEMAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's ri... JAMES HANSEN This is a first step, but it shows that we have choices to reduce our impact on global warming. Usin... LARRY SCHWEIGER ...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible bu... JOHN HARTE Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. ALEISTER CROWLEY The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA The administration has insisted it's not their job to fight global warming. In fact they have both t... DAVID BOOKBINDER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Without effective action over several decades, global warming will see ice sheets melting in the nor... JACQUELINE MCGLADE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being ch... DIANNE FEINSTEIN I still am not convinced that global warming is any more than hysteria. It's like another fad and wi... PAUL KELLEY Our research pointed to rapid global warming and the shifting of climate zones. Our climate models p... ERICH ROECKNER The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matte... MALCOLM TURNBULL Global warming, global poverty, pollution, and terrorism constitute some of our biggest challenges i... RAYMOND OBENG The fact is that Common Core is no more responsible for a bizarre homework question than global warm... SONNY PERDUE Global warming threatens our health, our environment, and our economic security through projected ch... CHRISTINE VANDERLAN Even if we constrain global warming to the EU target of a two-degree (Celsius) increase, we will be ... JACQUELINE MCGLADE When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN David Lange was the leader of a much-needed revolution, but he understood that it was causing unnece... ANDREW LITTLE All the consequences of global warming will occur more rapidly. That's the scary thing: the amount o... GUY KIRK We're trying to fight global warming, so this is a good way to contribute that we'll foot the bill f... LUKE CARTIN There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dres... ROGER CARAS Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE We're very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because t... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Global warming is not only the No. 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most impo... LEONARDO DICAPRIO In fact, when you burn coal, you emit more acid rain pollution, more air pollution, more smog and mo... DAN BECKER Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our le... MARILYN FERGUSON We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be ser... BJORN LOMBORG Smog is causing a public health crisis, affecting people in nearly every state in the nation. It's t... REBECCA STANFIELD Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrup... FRANCES BEINECKE Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and cause... JEFF MERKLEY Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID We fully anticipate that the environment in general and global warming in particular... will be a fr... GENE KARPINSKI Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorr... AL GORE To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming t... DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may chan... STEVEN MAGEE These studies each quantify, in a variety of ways, the risks we are already dealing with in the glob... GARY YOHE I believe in a world in which science is the key for supporting the development of a happy future fo... ERALDO BANOVAC I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to S... WALTER CRONKITE Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more
humane society will not emer... VACLAV HAVEL Without the materials needed to manufacture new technologies, our future innovators will not have th... PAUL E. JACOBS Our concern is that human industrialization could be a trigger for extreme climate changes on a glob... BRIAN CUMMING A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred y... EARL BLUMENAUER If we look out into our future, global warming will have a longer impact, which makes it somewhat sc... BILL PATZERT Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warmin... JAMES HANSEN A world built upon Mass-Marketing, Advertising and Branding is a world built upon lies! Brainless Co... DWIGHT W. HAYES How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Our products and our services are urgently needed. We will take advantage of the business opportunit... TORSTEN JEWORREK It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be ser... BJORN LOMBORG In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in... EUDORA WELTY Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The realities of the world are a constant reminder that global action and collective efforts are now... JAN ELIASSON Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that... SYLVIA EARLE If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest... MARK Z. JACOBSON It is increasingly clear that global warming makes [hurricanes] more severe and destructive. Katrina... JOSEPH ROMM The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. BARRY COMMONER Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ... DAN PEARCE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We were not expecting to get caught up in the global warming debate when we published our initial re... JUDITH CURRY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY The next step is for the Legislature to pass A.B. 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act. Bipartisan c... DEVRA WANG America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first communit... ADLAI E. STEVENSON Humans recognize the duality, autonomy, and latitude range of the mind and the body, and all humans ... KILROY J. OLDSTER There's already evidence that the roads are starting to deteriorate at a much more rapid rate. DON MADDEN Within the scientific community there is no debate about the fact that the Earth is warming, and the... ELLEN PRAGER Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the li... GLORIA REUBEN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for ... ELIOT SPITZER We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed t... JEREMY RIFKIN That signal is urgently needed. ANDY KOPPLIN The findings of our research suggest that an alternative approach (to climate change) is urgently ne... MARGO THORNING The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our econ... JERRY FALWELL Global companies' performance on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) issues is rapidly becom... MATTHEW KIERNAN It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless qu... MURRAY ROTHBARD Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. DEYTH BANGER America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, ... BILL SHUSTER The global warmers ... predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They d... KARY MULLIS The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax -... LEWIS CARROLL Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! V.C. ANDREWS
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