Demography Quote by Mark Hertsgaard

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

— Wangari Maathai

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can’t worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half”

— Michael Crichton

“Less obviously, concern for the environment is a luxury good. Wealthy Americans are willing to spend more money to protect the environment as a…

— Charles Wheelan

“Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world's richest…

— Russell Kirk

“Only when we get sufficiently rich can we afford the relative luxury of caring about the environment.”

— Bjorn Lomborg

“The richest 1 percent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up…

— Greta Thunberg

Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment.

— Clive Lewis

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is…

— Petra Kelly

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

“Only the man’s greed and scientific development is responsible for earth’s degradation of environment and ecology.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand