I do not think nuclear power, still beset with insurmountable problems of risk particularly in waste storage, is the solution to global warming problems. But we do need a vigorous debate about how to respond to climate change - with all options subject to the same scrutiny and charged with the same requirements of producing energy that is clean, safer and sustainable.
Peter Garrett - Climate Change - Problem - Solutions - Risk

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
Peter Garrett - Climate Change - Challenges - Government - Action - Determination

There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change.
Peter Garrett - Climate Change - Environment - Challenges - Success - Jobs

Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.
Peter Garrett - Climate Change - Environment - Challenges - Government - Science - Decisions

But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
Peter Garrett - Climate Change - Environment - Challenges - Political - Economy - Negative

The challenge for governments is to adopt policies that address the increasing energy demand but within the long-term context of climate change. Many elements can be considered: ways of making coal cleaner; rapidly developing and supporting a suite of renewable energy technologies with an emphasis on increased energy efficiency; carbon caps and trading; and, of course, looking hard at ways of reducing and localising energy demand.
Peter Garrett - Climate Change - Environment - Challenges - Solutions - Government

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet's atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?
David Suzuki - Environment - World - Crazy

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late '80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.
David Suzuki - Environment - World - Change