What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based…

— Bernice King

We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's no excusing…

— Cory Booker

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak…

— Dalai Lama

The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the…

— Lester R. Brown

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I…

— Roz Savage

Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood…

— Michael Brune

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the…

— James Lovelock

Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think,…

— Arjun Makhijani

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred…

— David Suzuki

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

— Tony Abbott

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

— Dixie Lee Ray

It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical…

— Lennart Bengtsson

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of…

— Li Keqiang

We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only…

— Zac Goldsmith