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Eric Holthaus Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“It’s refreshing to hear anyone—especially a Republican—actually hopeful on climate.”
— Eric Holthaus, The conservative case for taxing carbon pollution
Tagged: Republicans, Climate Change, Refreshing, Hopeful
“Time is running short, but that doesn’t mean we should be reckless. We are fast entering a world in which there are no good options remaining to tackle climate change. Geoengineering is dangerous, but so are aerosols, and so is accelerating climate change. Absent a real-life Hollywood miracle, we’ll likely need to try some interventions that would have been better left to the movies.”
— Eric Holthaus, Surprise, we’ve been accidentally geoengineering for decades … and we can’t stop now.
Tagged: Geoengineering, Reckless, Aerosol Emissions, Hollywood
“I'm a meteorologist by training and a journalist by profession. For the past 12 years, I've focused every working day on understanding, explaining, and trying to alleviate the effects of climate change. Yet global carbon emissions are more than 20 percent higher now than when I started work as a climate journalist. It's difficult not to internalize some of this as a personal failure.”
— Eric Holthaus, Got Those Climate Change Blues
Tagged: Climate Change, Meterologist, Journalist, Carbon Emissions, Failure
“I don’t know if it’s the right decision, but I know that I need to preserve my own well-being to continue to fight for the planet.”
— Eric Holthaus, Got Those Climate Change Blues
Tagged: Climate Change, Self-Help, Well-Being
“I lose sleep over climate change almost every single night. I can’t remember how long this has been happening, but it’s been quite a while, and it’s only getting worse. I confess: I need help.”
— Eric Holthaus, Got Those Climate Change Blues
Tagged: Climate Change, Insomnia, Confessions
“With climate, we are finally starting to realize that this is a story about people, not about science, graphs or charts. It’s really a story about ourselves and how we interact with the rest of the world.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: Climate Change, Globalism
“Socially-constructed masculinity is ruining the planet.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: Society, World, planet, Earth, smash the patriarchy, Gender Equality
“Our job as people who understand the fundamental connectedness of the environment and thriving life of all kinds is to shift our culture (relatively quickly) to make the most meaningful of these changes feel inevitable.

That shift starts with each of us.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: environment, Environmental Thinking, saving earth, saving the environment, Change, change starts with you
“If you need to recharge, recharge. If you need to fight, fight. We need you. We are all in this together.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: Life, Keep Going, Never Give Up, live fully, Live An Extraordinary Life, the world needs you, Motivational
“Don't let anyone tell you climate change is hopeless. Together, we're a powerful tool for change. Faster than elections + policy + industry”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: change starts within, Change, Climate Change, change in the world
“The more quickly we learn and accept the humanity in each other, the more quickly we can work together -- on behalf of all living things.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: humanity, Acceptance, Working Together, human unity
“We are each part of the answer, in small and big ways.

This is the biggest challenge of our time, maybe of all time.

We need everyone.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: Change, solving climate change, doing something, climate issues, Climate Change, Global Warming, human unity, humanity, world issues
“I’m not sure how much more clearly we can say this:
Everything we’re doing, if it doesn’t involve eliminating fossil fuel use immediately, is actively making the climate problem worse.
There is no time left for incremental action. It is literally do or die time.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: eliminating fossil fuel, reduce emissions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Act Now, now is the time
“Our task is to reduce emissions as quickly and justly as possible, no matter the political context. We don’t have time to wait for 'a better time.'”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: save earth, save planet earth, reduce emissions, Global Warming, Climate Change, Act Now, Do it now
“We won't survive this century unless we start caring more about each other. Compassion. Empathy. Love.

The internet has connected us, now it's up to our hearts to do the rest.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: humanity, human unity, Human Connection, Compassion Hurts, Empathy, Love, save humanity
“A fast transition away from fossil fuels in the next few decades could be enough to put off rapid sea-level rise for centuries. That’s a decision worth countless trillions of dollars and millions of lives.

'The range of outcomes,' Bassis says, 'is really going to depend on choices that people make.'”
— Eric Holthaus, Global catastrophe is just two melted glaciers away
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, sea-level rise, global problems, world issues, environmental outcome
“A wholesale collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites would set off a catastrophe. Giant icebergs would stream away from Antarctica like a parade of frozen soldiers. All over the world, high tides would creep higher, slowly burying every shoreline on the planet, flooding coastal cities and creating hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

All this could play out in a mere 20 to 50 years — much too quickly for humanity to adapt.”
— Eric Holthaus, Global catastrophe is just two melted glaciers away
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, world issues, global problems, glaciers, antartica
“Minute-by-minute, huge skyscraper-sized shards of ice cliffs would crumble into the sea, as tall as the Statue of Liberty and as deep underwater as the height of the Empire State Building. The result: a global catastrophe the likes of which we’ve never seen.”
— Eric Holthaus, Global catastrophe is just two melted glaciers away
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, glaciers thaw, global problem, World Problems
“At some point, we have to say it: Climate change is the biggest act of injustice in the history of humanity. It is our moral duty to demand justice, whatever the cost.

That time for me is now.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: Climate Change, Climate Change Is Real, Injustice, injustice in human history, Act Now, we must act now, save humanity
“For the rest of our lives, every moment matters.

Do what you can, whatever that is. Everyone has part of the answer. We need each other, and we are in this together. We can imagine and demand and build a better world.

We must insist that time start now.”
— Eric Holthaus
Tagged: world issues, global problems, Climate Change, World Problems, building a better world, Lives, World, people who make difference, humanity
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