Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… — Richard Heinberg
When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable… — Richard Heinberg
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere.… — Richard Heinberg
We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or… — Richard Heinberg
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific… — Werner Herzog
hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ‚‚ out of the… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again. — James Inhofe
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? — Derrick Jensen
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. — Derrick Jensen
If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic. — Dennis Kucinich
We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs. — Ray Kurzweil
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are… — James Lovelock
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 far… — James Lovelock
By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix… — James Lovelock
Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong.… — George Monbiot
A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day. — Ernest Moniz
To be modern is to destroy nature. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is… — Gaylord Nelson
Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will. — John von Neumann
Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is… — Naomi Oreskes
For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food. — Raj Patel
America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap… — Michael Pollan
We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease. I… — John Shimkus

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