Thread by @Lcars24

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
—Kurt Vonnegut

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
—Kurt Vonnegut

We could have saved the Earth, but we were too damned cheap.
—Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2014)

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
—Al Gore

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
—Al Gore

The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.
—Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
—Al Gore

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
—Al Gore

The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need; more are being developed. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
—Al Gore

We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home Earth is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.
—Al Gore

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now, the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.
—Al Gore

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them now.
—Al Gore

Here is the truth: The Earth is round, Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11, Elvis is dead, Obama was born in the United States, and the climate crisis is real.
—Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more—if more should be required—the future of human civilization is at stake.
—Al Gore

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.
—Harry Reid

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
—Bill McKibben

Why are Republicans the only climate-science-denying party in the world?
—Jonathan Chait

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.
—Paul Krugman

Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food or will we take the lead now and leave to our children & grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?
—Wesley Clark