Metaphors & SoundbitesTags:children
A school bus goes up a hill, then down. The hilltop is the tipping point. Earth is the bus, but with no driver, just quarreling teenagers, ...
A hundred years from now, looking back, the only question that will appear important about the historical moment in which we now live is the ...
"It's 3:23 in the morning, and I'm awake
because my great, great, grandchildren won't let me sleep.
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"Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create the stuff ...
For those who spend little time in greenhouses, perhaps we should call it "The Parked Car Effect." We all know what happens when you park ...
Climate change is like one of those Hollywood disaster movies that pit obstructionists against ordinary people who become heroes. Those movi ...
"We will see it, our kids will live it, and there's a question of whether our grandkids will make it through or not."
Future generations "will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted." —Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.
This is not Gen X, Y or Z. It is Gen U - the U-turn generation whose task is to see global emissions slow, and over the next 30-40 years, ...
'If you dismiss all climate science as a hoax, I can’t help you. That’s between you & your beach house — and your kids, whose future you’re ...
“It is no longer enough to love, feed, shelter, clothe and educate a child – not when the future itself is in danger. Being conscientious pa ...
Electric utility CEOs say they must burn coal to meet our energy demands. Sure, hungry kids want candy not vegetables. Yet, burning coal o ...
"The world is perfectly on track to six degrees Celsius increasing the temperature, which is very bad news. And everybody, even school child ...