Carbon dioxide Quote by George Monbiot

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are…

— Wangari Maathai

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and…

— Winona LaDuke

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the…

— Will Steffen

“The most urgent challenge of present civilization is to understand that the drying out of landscapes has a much more serious impact on climatic…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed…

— Pope John Paul II

“The combined activities of our enormous population are already producing breathtaking effects. Our planet is only 12,700 kilometers in diameter—about three times the distance…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed…

— George Monbiot

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

— James Lovelock

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The kind of industrial wasteland that you see in so much of Europe has a tremendous poignancy to me, especially when it's run down…

— Johann Johannsson

If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts…

— Lierre Keith