Costs Quote by Roger Scruton

“Over a large range of cases, environmental problems arise from our entirely reasonable habit of taking the benefits of our activities, while passing on…

— Roger Scruton

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

— Edmund Hillary

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to…

— Jon Meacham

The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They are social…

— John Bellamy Foster

The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

— Naomi Oreskes

“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

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level…

— Al Gore

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

— Frederick Lenz

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

— Harrison Ford

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of…

— David Suzuki

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something…

— Roger Scruton