Quotes by Nicholas Stern

Nicholas Stern

A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as ‘give up meat to save the planet.

Choices

Giving Up

Vegetarian Diet

A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We’ve been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don’t know what that’s like.

World

Would Be

Years

Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

Adaptation

Climate

Cost

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

Adaptation

Challenges

Climate

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

Climate

Cost

Mean

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn’t make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

Math

Physics

Trying

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Challenges

Together

Two Sides

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen…We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

Risk

Two

War

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Climate

Climate Change

Market Failure

Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world – access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

People

Suffering

Water

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Assuming

Atmosphere

Attitude

Battle

Business

Cancer

Careers

Challenges

Change

Choices

Claims

Climate

Climate Change

Coal

Cost

Country

Currents

Data

Demand

Democracy

Dirty

Drinking

Effects

Energy

Environmental

Faces

Failing

Father

Fighting

Foreign Policy

Fuel

Giving Up

Government

Greenhouses

Growth

Half

Hands

Heat

Ice

Impact

Interesting

Islands

Levels

Market Failure

Math

Mean

Meat

Moving

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Quotes by Nicholas Stern

Nicholas Stern

A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as ‘give up meat to save the planet.

A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We’ve been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don’t know what that’s like.

Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn’t make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen…We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world – access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

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