Country Quote by Carol Browner

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil…

— Carl Safina

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

— Barry Commoner

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is…

— David Letterman

“You’ve heard of the famous Exxon Valdez tanker spill, where a tanker ran into the rocks in Alaska. Thirty million gallons of crude oil…

— John Grisham

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

— Tony Hayward

I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.

— John Hillcoat

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must…

— Sylvia Earle

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water, the oil…

— Rohini Nilekani

The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global…

— Al Gore

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

— James Fallows

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that…

— Josh Fox