“We are already facing growing catastrophes due to climate change. It is too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. That ship has in many ways already sailed. The earth is going to be much less hospitable to human beings in the future.”

— John Bellamy Foster

Interview with Left Voice (2017)

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Sociology professor and Marxist writer 1953

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

“The track temperature is at 32 degrees celsius already and it's climbing like a mountain face at the moment.”

Martin Brundle (1959) British racecar driver

“Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 378-382.

“Climate change adds further injustice to an already unfair world.”

Emmanuel Macron (1977) 25th President of the French Republic

Cited in: Damian Carrington, "Climate change will determine humanity's destiny, says Angela Merkel" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/15/climate-change-will-determine-humanitys-destiny-says-angela-merkel, The Guardian, 15 November 2017 (page visited on 15 November 2017).
United Nations Climate Change Conference (2017)

“The government can't change the weather. I said that in the speech. We can pass a bunch of laws that will destroy our economy, but it isn't going to change the weather. Because, for example, there are other countries that are polluting in the atmosphere much greater than we are at this point, China, India, all these countries that are still growing. They're not going to stop doing what they're doing. America is a country, it's not a planet. So we can pass a bunch of laws or executive orders that will do nothing to change the climate or the weather but will devastate our economy. Devastate it!”

Marco Rubio (1971) U.S. Senator from state of Florida, United States; politician

Fox & Friends, Fox News, , quoted in * 2013-02-13
GOP ‘Savior’ Marco Rubio Mocks Climate Change
Adam
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Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/13/1588411/gop-savior-marco-rubio-mocks-climate-change/
Referring to a statement in his State of the Union response, "When we point out that no matter how many job-killing laws we pass, our government can't control the weather — he accuses us of wanting dirty water and dirty air."
2010s, 2013

“Mars, Triton, Pluto and Jupiter all show global warming. Climate changes on other planets and their moons show that climate change elsewhere in the Solar System could not possibly be due to human activity on Earth. There must be a driving force outside the Earth. It is the Sun.”

Ian Plimer book Heaven and Earth

Heaven and Earth (2009)

“During these moments of extreme difficulty we will all have to adapt in some way, because there are already many who live in hardship.”

Eduardo Horacio García (1956) Catholic bishop

Source: Covid 19: "the word of God is carried out by concrete gestures of solidarity", underlines Mgr. Garcia http://www.fides.org/en/news/67736-AMERICA_ARGENTINA_Covid_19_the_word_of_God_is_carried_out_by_concrete_gestures_of_solidarity_underlines_Mgr_Garcia (14 April 2020coronavirus)

“One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.”

Ramsey Campbell (1946) English author

“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”

Margaret Atwood book The Heart Goes Last

Source: The Heart Goes Last

“Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.”

Bob Rae (1948) Canadian politician

Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again, p. 95

“We are already facing growing catastrophes due to climate change. It is too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. That ship has in many ways already sailed. The earth is going to be much less hospitable to human beings in the future.”

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