Chu Criticizes Climate Change Naysayers : NPR

PARIS (AP) — The U.S. energy secretary says the debate about climate change reminds him of the old argument that smoking isn't bad for you.

Steven Chu also urged greater investment in clean energy as he spoke Tuesday in Paris to an International Energy Agency meeting of energy ministers and industry leaders.

He says that because the evidence of climate change is growing more compelling and the price is oil is likely to rise, countries must turn to clean-energy production.

Chu criticized attempts to "muddy the waters" on climate change science.

Sustainable Jersey: Another French Revolution? Part 1

Carl Amery, German Greens, April 2004: We in the green movement aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be more contemptible and more criminal than selling a six year old to an Asian brothel.

Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund: If I were reincarnated, I would wish to return to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

John Davis, Editor, Earth First! Journal: Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.