166 Carbon Quotes for You to Enjoy

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. Napoleon Hill

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We're 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

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I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going. Percy Julian

Life Me Age Remember Plant Plants Our Air Out Gives Pick Boy How Leaves Years Off Up Going Human Oxygen Human Beings Which Breathe Fascinating Beings Keep Carbon Carbon Dioxide Thing

We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human-caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution. Kofi Annan

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If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative. Michael Pollan

You Light Negative Possibly Eating Footprint Your Meat Even Carbon

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up. Piers Corbyn

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If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands. Winona LaDuke

Agriculture Organic Our Air Destroying About Could Glaciers Industrialized Quarter Oceans Forests Moved Moving Lands Carbon

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed. Al Gore

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The more the relationships of the nitrogen-rich substances to the cell nucleus were recognized, the more the question of the arrangement of the nitrogen and carbon atoms in the molecule came to stand out. Albrecht Kossel

Atoms Relationships Nitrogen Recognized Out More Arrangement Came Were Question Cell Substances Stand Molecule Carbon

Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth? Alex Berenson

Change Will Those Exactly Economic Economic Growth Price Disastrous Does How Climate Climate Change Affect Heating Oil Want Mean Might Taxes Gallon Carbon Growth Raise

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon. Alex Steffen

Life War Health Water Prosperity Diversity Depend Respecting Atmospheric Ecological Shared Supplies New Ecosystems Toxic Chemical Real Limits Still Just While Depth Including Multitude Carbon Gas Need

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe. Alex Steffen

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Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero. Alex Steffen

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We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success. Alex Steffen

Success Power Too Our Cities Thousand Civilization New Major Economy Make Within Becoming Depends Blunt Century Planet Carbon Zero

The human foot has bones and muscles and can balance back and forth. If you step and you maybe make a little mistake, your foot can compensate. But if I step in the wrong spot, my foot isn't going to compensate because it's just one piece of carbon fiber. Amy Purdy

You Balance Mistake Fiber Back Foot Step Wrong Piece Make Because Spot Going Human Maybe Just Just One Little Forth Your Carbon Compensate Muscles Bones

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably. Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government. Andrew Scheer

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We have to ensure politically that what's doable can indeed by translated into law, but what's not doable mustn't become European law. Otherwise, the auto industry will work somewhere with higher carbon emissions - and we can't want that. Angela Merkel

Work Law Will Somewhere Become Otherwise Indeed Ensure Emissions Higher Industry Politically Auto Auto Industry Want Translated European Carbon

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character. Anna Kendrick

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I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small. Anne Taintor

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My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction. Anthony Pratt

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