Accelerate Quote by Erik P. Eckholm

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die,…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone…

— E. O. Wilson

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals…

— Douglas Adams

In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of…

— Thom Hartmann

A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all…

— George Schaller

Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat…

— Jeff Corwin

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one…

— Donella Meadows

Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's…

— David Suzuki

“In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened…

— Mark Carwardine

The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.

— Alice Roberts

By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few…

— Stuart L. Pimm

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't…

— Paul Watson