If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. – Valerie Jarrett
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. – Jeff Goodell
We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for “”dangerous”” climate change.” – Jeff Goodell
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets. – Jeff Goodell
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. – John Boyd Orr
In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change. – Sarah Palin
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. – Carol Burnett
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women. – Vera Farmiga
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible. – Lech Walesa
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. – James Lovelock
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie
I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually. – Lenny Kravitz
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. – Steven Tyler
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world. – Christian Bale
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. – Sydney Madwed
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. – Paul Auster
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. – Rachel Weisz
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am. – Andrew Shue
