Cara Augustenborg

Cara Aisling Augustenborg (born 1978) is an American and Irish environmental scientist, media pundit, assistant professor at University College Dublin and a member of Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council and President Michael D. Higgins' Council of State.

Quotes

• In my experience and that of my colleagues, public interest in climate change has actually increased over the past few years - We’re witnessing the effects of climate change with far more frequency than we used to due to increased storms, flooding, and generally wacky weather.
• Far from it! The sooner we tackle climate change, the less extreme the measures need to be to solve it. In fact, most of the things we need to do to solve climate change are things we would want to do anyway for health, economic and social reasons. There are a lot of great reasons to move to a transport system that’s dominated by cycling and public transport options over traffic-inducing, isolating and dirty cars.
• If we let climate change continue unabated, it will affect the most vulnerable first.
  • Q&A: Dr Cara Augustenborg - Solutions for a Broken Planet. Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Dublin Cycling. Retrieved: 19 November, 2023.

• I'm kind of approaching my carbon footprint like I approach my weight, going to the gym regularly, watching what I eat, and realizing I'm not going to lose that 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) all at once, like I want.
• We can be pushing all these individual change things on people, but unless the government steps up, we won't be able to reach the target.
• So maybe the one biggest thing you can do is to get politically engaged, because behavioral change is really slow. Too slow to stop runaway climate change.
  • Women need to speak out on climate. 03/06/2018, Bob Berwyn. DW, Retrieved: 19 November 2023.