Carbon Emissions Quotes

“A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.”
― Gloria Ng, Cloth Diapering Made Easy

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“The principle of fair reduction is based on the concept of historic responsibility. Developed countries finished industrialising first. Thus, over the last 60 years, the developed countries, which represent 17 percent of the world's population, have been responsible for 70 percent of carbon emissions. The developed countries should adjust for this disparity accordingly. In contrast, developing countries, which represent 83 percent of the world's population, have contributed only 30 percent of total carbon emissions over the past 60 years. It is therefore fair to give developing countries more leeway to produce carbon emissions.”
― Yan Xuetong

“When collectively, businesses everywhere are able to accurately measure their carbon footprint, it allows us to collectively make more informed decision.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“We have dangerously warmed our world already, and our governments still refuse to take the actions necessary to halt the trend. There was a time when many had the right to claim ignorance. But for the past three decades, since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created and climate negotiations began, this refusal to lower emissions has been accompanied with full awareness of the dangers. And this kind of recklessness would have been functionally impossible without institutional racism, even if only latent. It would have been impossible without Orientalism, without all the potent tools on offer that allow the powerful to discount the lives of the less powerful. These tools - of ranking the relative value of humans - are what allow the writing off of entire nations and ancient cultures. And they are what allowed for the digging up of all that carbon to begin with.”
― Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

“I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon”
― Russell Gold, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

“We are now burning 80 percent more coal than we were just in the year 2000.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“There is a chasm between a world that quickly breaks the link between modern economic growth and carbon emissions, and a world that fails to do so. The side of the chasm we are now on is a dangerous place. It would be reckless beyond the normal human irrationality for us to stay where we are.”
― Ross Garnaut, Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity

“You don’t have the right to reproduce, unless you are doing your part to reduce carbon emission. Reproduction is an animal tenet but for it to be a human right, the human must carry out the duties that go along with reproduction, that is to make sure the newborns actually have a healthy world to live in, not one infested with disease and geopolitical conflicts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“For electric vehicles to make an impact on climate change, they must be powered by renewable energy sources, otherwise, the powerplants producing the electricity to power the vehicles would end up dumping more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than we are able to reduce by replacing regular vehicles with electric ones.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“If we are to make significant strides in climate action through electric vehicles, then producing them as a class statement for the rich won't do, they must be made affordable enough to be owned by the vast population of working classes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“We barely have a decade to reduce emission, after that all the prayers won't rescue humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“When all trees are gone, the world will be a jungle -- for trees are not the jungle but our faithful refuge from it”
― Agona Apell

“Carbon offsetting is all about the debit here, credit there, no matter where.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“The term 'green lairds' is a loaded one, used to describe wealthy individuals and companies who buy large swathes of Scotland, in many cases to 'offset' their carbon emissions - much easier than actually reducing emissions at source.”
― Mandy Meikle, Reforesting Scotland 67, Spring/Summer 2023

“The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity.”
― Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

“The world is being ruined by the 'rich and successful people.' Amassing wealth seems to be the prerogative of these people even at the cost of the environment and betterment of our world.

Don't these 'rich and successful people' realise that it is already time to make amends for their selfishness and moral turpitude?

We the citizens of this world must give these people an ultimatum that they need to stop their businesses from ruining our world.”
― Avijeet Das

“The use of crude oil enabled humanity to reach a higher level of prosperity”
― Gun Gun Febrianza

“The richest 1 percent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity.”
― Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions