Quotes About Environment

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

Time is running out for the climate

As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.

The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.