Activism Quote by Michael Shermer

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

— Harrison Ford

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human…

— E. O. Wilson

Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it…

— Michael Crichton

I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.

— David Attenborough

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody…

— Ted Danson

Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever.

— Dale Jamieson

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be…

— Robyn Davidson

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done…

— Barry Commoner

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

— Tom Steyer