Climate change is upon us every single day.Linda Thomas-GreenfieldTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“Climate change is upon us every single day.
“The fact that I made it to where I made it, when I look at where I came, I think is a message to the world and it's also a message to other young people who come from diverse and underprivileged backgrounds, that where they come from does not necessarily have to define where they are going.”Linda Thomas-GreenfieldBackgrounds
“How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.”Nicholas SternClimate
“Our country must transform its power system to be just, equitable, anti-racist, and climate- and disaster-resilient.”Cori BushClimate
“People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.”
“When America shows up - when we are consistent and persistent - when we exert our influence in accordance with our values - the United Nations can be an indispensable institution for advancing peace, security, and our collective well-being.”Linda Thomas-GreenfieldAdvancing
“You know, I wish someone had told me I could be anything, that I could do anything... I did not know when I was a young girl and even when I was in college that I could do anything and be anything.”Linda Thomas-GreenfieldYoung Girl
“Unfortunately, too many countries in the Security Council ignore the positive ways we can use digital technologies, or worse, are deploying them to do tremendous harm - both within and beyond their borders.”Linda Thomas-GreenfieldBorders
“Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.”Greta ThunburgClimate
“At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.”Billy ParishClimate
“One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this 'climate change,' and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.”John RaeseClimate