Quotes About Environment

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

If a factory closes down here and pops up in China where they don't have access to clean technology, clean energy, then the world is not better off.

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

From a conservation issue alone, you'd have to say there are too many badgers. A bigger growth in the badger population is not good for the balance of conservation anyway.

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because things aren't working very well for a majority of the world's population or the environment.

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to what our earth can bear and if we're willing to cope with the struggle for limited resources, which only seem to increase as our population does.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

If you are like many people, flying may be a large portion of your carbon footprint. Over all, the aviation industry accounts for 11 percent of all transportation-related emissions in the United States.

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing.

I want Portland to be the cleanest city in America.

Portland took the lead on climate action more than 25 years ago when we became the first U.S. city to adopt a climate action plan.