Quotes About Environment

Mother nature will balance things out but not if we interfere by destroying rainforests and overfishing the seas. That is where the real environmental catastrophe could occur.

Global warming -- at least the modern nightmare vision -- is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.

We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.

To kill an animal in order to satisfy your nutritional desires, not your nutritional needs, that seems to me to be completely unacceptable.

When my daughers, Simone and Emily look at me 25 or 30 years from now and say 'what were you doing, when global warming was happening? And when you guys knew what was coming down the road?' I want to be able to say, 'guys, I was doing everything I knew how to do.

James Hansen, one of the most distinguished scientists to warn of the dangers of climate change, once said that being in his line of work is like screaming at people from behind a soundproof glass wall. You've written that being an author of fiction who is concerned with environmental questions often feels frighteningly similar.

They got it all wrong. They think they're doing good with their fight and their ignorance and discrimination and all that. But really, they're killing the earth with it.

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can

Love the rain especially when I am writing or designing, my creativity is extra focused.

En la actual polémica, mientras nuestra sociedad se detiene en una ignorancia mojigata, haríamos bien en recordar lo mucho que hay en juego: la salud de los hambrientos y la conservación de nuestro legado más precioso, el medio ambiente.

species went extinct.

The problem is simple: the world has too many people and not enough resources.

The clearing was scattered with trunks of trees felled long ago.

This, I fundamentally believe, is why scientists and engineers will do more than politicians and activists to solve today's environmental problems. They have more than words. They have solutions.

only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

We are no more qualified to be the stewards or developers of the Earth than are goats to be gardeners.

Camels, unlike most animals, regulate their body temperatures at two different but stable states. During daytime in the desert, when it is unbearably hot, camels regulate close to 40°C, a close enough match to the air temperature to avoid having to cool by sweating precious water. At night the desert is cold, and even cold enough for frost; the camel would seriously lose heat if it tried to stay at 40°C, so it moves its regulation to a more suitable 34°C, which is warm

we live on a live planet that can respond to the changes we make, either by cancelling the changes or by cancelling us.

but such is the inertia of industrial civilization that we are likely to go on using fossil fuel for a decade at least.

This false belief that we own the Earth, or are its stewards, allow us to pay lip service to environmental to environmental policies and programmes but to continue with business as usual.

The warm surface layer is stable, and except in fierce storms, like hurricanes, it stays intact and the cooler waters below do not mix with it.

I call Gaia a physiological system because it appears to have the unconscious goal of regulating the climate and the chemistry at a comfortable state for life.

It sounds good to try to save the planet, but in reality we are not thinking of saving Gaia, we are thinking of saving the Earth for us, or for our nation.

the breath of 7 billion people, our pets and our livestock puts into the already overburdened atmosphere 7 billion tons of CO2 a year.