I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.
Interpretation
Global warming poses a severe risk, driven by outdated energy practices and economic interests.
In this quote, Robert Kennedy Jr. emphasizes the critical nature of global warming as a significant threat to humanity and the environment. He suggests that it stems from a conflict between traditional energy companies, which he believes would not survive in a truly competitive market, and the pressing need for innovative solutions to combat climate change.
In practice
In a speech about climate change awareness, reference this quote to highlight the urgency of the situation.
When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't get around to it until I was 29, but I always recognized that pollution was a theft. That it was a way of stealing something from the public - the common earth.
There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you have to follow your heart. Believe that you have a unique group of talents and abilities that are going to allow you to accomplish something in an area that interests you. Work at that and try to make some kind of contribution to your community.
When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember a conversation I had with him where he said, you know, this is the richest state in the country if you look at the resources and the land, but the poorest people after the state of Mississippi: the 49th poorest people in the country.
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
In the world of globalization, the fossil fuel masters of the universe who are digging up our boreal forest and our muskeg and scraping out the bitumen would rather have Canadians take all the risks - and then the oceans take the risks to ship it to refineries that they've already built in other countries rather than create jobs for Canadians here.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
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