Environmental Quotes

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We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address… — Al Gore
We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges,… — Ernest Moniz
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so… — Frederick Seitz
Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization… — George Reisman
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma. — Richard St. Barbe Baker
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of… — Pope John Paul II
We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over… — Freeman Dyson
Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable,… — Gregg Easterbrook
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios. — Michael Shermer
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism. — Michael Shermer
Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all… — Leonardo DiCaprio
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe.... — Frederick Seitz
We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our… — Robert Rubin
Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics — Jonathon Porritt
Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the… — Unknown Author
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context… — Phil Harding
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a… — Kofi Annan
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored… — Unknown Author

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