Biodiversity Quote by Will Steffen

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

— James Hansen

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its…

— E. O. Wilson

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

— Klaus Topfer

Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is…

— Johan Rockstrom

The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin…

— Johan Rockstrom

The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the…

— Freeman Dyson

Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much carbon is…

— Annalee Newitz

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

— Dasha Zhukova

The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility -…

— Michael Somare

The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast scale. Rainforests…

— Prince Charles

Places that have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast scale. The…

— George Monbiot

We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest of this…

— E. O. Wilson