33 Compelling Climate Change Quotes for a Better World

Inspiring the world to make changes for a better tomorrow can be tough. However, a few activists, politicians and celebrities hit the nail on the head when it comes to talking about climate change. See a few climate change quotes ready to compel you to action.

• “The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.” - Barack Obama

• “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” - Benjamin Franklin

• “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.” - Ronald Reagan

• “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.”- Mahatma Gandhi

• “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” - Bill Gates

• “On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.” - Kofi Annan

• "Gordon Brown thinks you can solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. I think you should solve climate change by changing the government" - Siân Berry

• "We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

• “We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It’s life or death.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

• “By polluting the oceans, not mitigating CO2 emissions and destroying our biodiversity, we are killing our planet. Let us face it, there is no planet B.” - Emmanuel Macron

• “I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap – as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.” - Elizabeth May

• “We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” - Elon Musk

• "Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it." - Tony Blair

• “The less we do to address climate change now, the more regulation we will have in the future.” - Bill Nye

• “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.” - Stephen Hawking

• “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Dr. Jane Goodall

• “It’s not climate change that needs to be tackled. It is the political power of the fossil fuel industry.” - Richard Denniss

• “What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” - Henry David Thoreau

• “When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years.” - David Attenborough

• “The planet will continue to cook.” - Paul Krugman

• “Since global warming Eskimos now have twenty different words for water.” - John O'Farrell

• “Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody’s going to buy their way out of its effects.” - Mark Ruffalo

• “I hope to use my celebrity to motivate people and contribute to moving our global society back from the brink. I am surprised environment is not at the top of the agenda. What is more important than good and clean air?” - Don Cheadle