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When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Damage
Depends
Environment
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Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Done
Earth
Scientist
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The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Environmental
Damage
People
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Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Climate
People
Problem
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I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Leader
Mean
Thinking
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Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Dimensions
Moral
Speak
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Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Claims
Climate Change
Scientist
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We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Animal
Atmosphere
Oxygen
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I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
People
Real
Thinking
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It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Materialism
Mean
Thinking
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Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in order to know if they're actually working.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Important
Order
Steps
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What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Community
Issues
Political
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It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Decision
Financial
Trying
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When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Animal
Disrespect
Moon
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Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that idea. Obviously, people can't survive without air and water, and we rely on plants and animals for food, and plants and animals rely on us to preserve their habitats.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Air
Animal
Ecosystems
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At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure."
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Scientist
Sides
Strong
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There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west, 70 million dollars a day are being spent in fighting fires that have clearly been exacerbated by drought and climate change. So, people have pointed out the true dollars and cents cost of inaction on climate change.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Fighting
Fire
Real
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Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Argument
World
Years
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Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is a scientific consensus on the fact that Earth's climate is heating up and human activities are part of the reason. We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it.
Naomi Oreskes / Historian
Environmental
People
Talking
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