“We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible.
… Climate change is one of the greatest dangers we face, and it’s one we can prevent if we act now. By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children.”
-Professor Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (1942-2018), English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, who elucidated both for experts and the lay public new discoveries about the origins and nature of the universe, even while battling Lou Gehrig’s disease since the age of 21, by all accounts among humanity’s greatest minds, commenting on July 2, 2017
