Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with… — Pope Francis
From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the… — Harry Browne
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth… — Barry Commoner
What we are seeing here is environmental injustice — Mike Farrell
So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere? — John Shimkus
The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide.… — John Boehner
For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around… — Phil Gingrey
Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce… — Michele Bachmann
I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full… — Thomas Jefferson
One in eight plant species face extinction. — David Attenborough
What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think… — Barbara Boxer
There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is… — Gwynne Dyer
Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation. — David Suzuki
Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy… — David Suzuki
We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it. — Daniel Gilbert
Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons. — Daniel Gilbert
Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking. — Daniel Goleman
Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best. — Joan Dye Gussow
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with… — James Hansen
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and… — James Hansen
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards). — James Hansen
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European… — James Hansen
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the… — Thom Hartmann
Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than COâ‚‚ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as… — Thom Hartmann
When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the… — Thom Hartmann

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