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. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
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.’ Nicholas Stern Read Quote
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
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. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They’re also being diversionary because if we don’t act the risks are enormous. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
It’s very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
I’ve never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up. Nicholas Stern Read Quote
The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally – and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes? Nicholas Stern Read Quote
