Quotes About Environment

The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that "Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.

we're willing to perform ultrasounds on rhinos

The Great Barrier Reef extends, discontinuously, for more than fifteen hundred miles, and in some places it is five hundred feet thick. By the scale of reefs, the pyramids at Giza are kiddie blocks. The way corals

We've got to hope that somehow it's all going to come together," Paul Crump, a herpetologist from the Houston Zoo who was directing the stalled waterfall project, told me. "We've got to hope that something will happen, and we'll be able to piece it all together, and it will all be as it once was, which now that I say it out loud sounds kind of stupid.

a third of them to be in danger of extinction, largely as a result of rising ocean temperatures.

Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.

A hundred starlings let loose in Central Park have by now multiplied to more than two hundred million.

on top of a twelve-thousand-foot-high mountain, where, in fact, there were no trees—just scrub and, somewhat incongruously, a dozen or so cows, eyeing us suspiciously.

Deforestation has contributed another 180 billion tons.

If Dicerorhinus sumatrensis has a future

amphibian fossils are so rare.

it's estimated the population has shrunk by sixty percent just in the last two decades.

Each year, we throw up another nine billion tons

To paraphrase J. R. McNeill paraphrasing Marx, "Men make their own climate, but they do not make it just as they please.

sea ice covers just half the area it did thirty years ago

in the face of climatic change, even natural climatic change, human activity has created an obstacle course for the dispersal of biodiversity

generating enough heat to, in effect, broil the surface of the planet.

higher than at any other point in the last eight hundred thousand years.

vaccinated every single condor—today there about four hundred

Ocean acidification is sometimes referred to as global warming's "equally evil twin.

After the initial heat pulse, the world experienced a multiseason "impact winter.

Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

It's just absolute hubris and so arrogant to think that we can survive without everything else. We come from this planet." --- Paul Hardisty, head of the Institute that runs SeaSim in Australia

It is expected that such an increase will produce an eventual average global temperature rise of between three and a half and seven degrees Fahrenheit