James Hansen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.”

“Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.”

“What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.”

“Adding CO2 to the air is like throwing another blanket on the bed.”

“I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.”

“It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.”

“The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.”

“Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.”

“Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.”

“The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.”