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.

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.

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.

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.

When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.

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.

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.