Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems. — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Footballers' consumerism or emphasis on luxury brands is hardly the root of all environmental problems. — David James Copy Share Image
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe…It is foolish… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry,… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
“Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of “grow or die,” is a thoroughly impersonal,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“There are several types of comparative analysis for garnering evidence for an evolutionary adaptation: structural or behavioral resemblance in different phyletic lines… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
“We line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental problems like incinerators, waste dumps, acid rain, global warming and… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Right now in this world, a child is dying from an ailment because its family cannot afford to buy charcoal for boiling… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“There are too many people in the world, and too many more are on the way. This is an issue that, in… — David Owen Copy Share Image
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“The Measure of America, a report of the Social Science Research Council, ranks every state in the United States on its “human… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to… — Mark Carwardine Copy Share Image
“Those who nod sagely and quote the tragedy of the commons in relation to environmental problems from pollution of the atmosphere to… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
Climate change is not an environmental problem. It is a civilizational problem. Climate change is not just another issue. If it is… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
