Adults Quote by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

— Joan D. Vinge

It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look…

— Bill Bryson

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in…

— Gail Bradbrook

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited…

— James Hansen

Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed by climate…

— Owen Jones

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature.…

— Zeena Schreck

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

— Moby

Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural…

— Sylvia Earle

We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing…

— Morgan Freeman

Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding politicians to…

— Gail Bradbrook

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

— Paul Kingsnorth

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question…

— Betty Williams