Nicholas Stern Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Nicholas Stern Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Nicholas Stern Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world,

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this… it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

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Those who say that climate change doesn’t exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

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The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally – and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

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The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.

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I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means ‘low-carbon consumption.’ This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.

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We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I’ve spent my life as a development economist, and it’s crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

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The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

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If coal is going to be used, the only response – because it is the dirtiest of all fuels – is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

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To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.

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10

I’ve never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

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My father‘s generation‘s crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can’t see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

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