7 John Holdren Quotes for You to Enjoy

John Holdren

American Public Servant

Born: Mar 1, 1944

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It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole. John Holdren

Environmental You Balance Yourself Society Kidding Those Only Costs Consumers Exclude Economically Balance Sheets Sheets Irrational Producers Export Large Whole

When I need to see the president, I make a request directly to his scheduler. I don't have to ask anybody's permission to see the president except the president. Some weeks, I see him multiple times. Some weeks, I don't see him at all. John Holdren

President See Some Directly Except Weeks Make Him Permission His Times Anybody Ask Request Multiple Need

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes. John Holdren

Control Energy Think Programmes Ought Enrichment Those Weapons Put Look Ultimately Any Done Which Uranium Fuel Translated Multinational Nuclear Nuclear Energy Technologies Nuclear Weapons Two

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions. John Holdren

Change Science People Will Changes Changing Ought Our Unless Say Responsible About Objective More Emissions Part Look Reduce Climate Climate Change Doing Continue Any Substantial Persuade Reasonable Sufficient Start Humans Harm

I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing. John Holdren

Changing One Of The Things Temperature About Something Only Fact Misleading Mainly Term Implies Like Global Global Warming Because Gradual In Fact Uniform Warming Planet Across Things

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it. John Holdren

Result Soil Temperature Something Course Conditions Start

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it. John Holdren

Change Understanding Think Propaganda Small Variety Generate Particular Climate Climate Change Doing Tanks Causing Role Did Human Against Fund Amount

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