Quotes About Environment

If the vehicle you took to work or school today was powered by electricity, great—though that electricity was probably generated using a fossil fuel.

What's most important is that the world get serious once again about advancing the field of nuclear energy. It's just too promising to ignore

seawater expands when it gets warmer.

Extra heat won't be good for the animals we eat and get milk from; it will make them less productive and more prone to dying young, which in turn will make meat, eggs, and dairy more expensive.

seas getting warmer, they're also bifurcating—developing some places where the water has more oxygen and others where it has less oxygen.

a 2-degree rise wouldn't simply be 33 percent worse than 1.5; it could be 100 percent worse. Twice as many people would have trouble getting clean water. Corn production in the tropics would go down twice as much.

We've already raised the temperature at least 1 degree Celsius since preindustrial times, and if we don't reduce emissions, we'll probably have between 1.5 and 3 degrees Celsius of warming by mid-century, and between 4 and 8 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

The countries that build great zero-carbon companies and industries will be the ones that lead the global economy in the coming decades.

by mid-century, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly.

As the world eats more meat, it accelerates the deforestation in Latin America. More burgers anywhere mean fewer trees there.

Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year.

With the price of today's batteries, EV owners save money only if gas costs more than around $3 per gallon.

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!

New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie.

New Rule: Oil companies must stop with the advertisements implying they're friends of the environment. At Exxon Mobil, we care about a thriving wildlife. Please--the only thing an oil executive has in common with a seagull is they'd both steal french fries from a baby.

We should stop worrying so much about the price of gasoline and start considering its cost . You really want to be patriotic? Don't change your car by putting a flag on it, change the car.

That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit?

New Rule: Stop talking about the gas prices under Obama. As if he's the guy out there changing the numbers on the sign with that long pole. And while they're at the gas station, Republicans who still think human activity doesn't affect air quality should poke their heads in the men's room.

Top people can function with many styles and in many environments. They have the ability and sensibility to listen. But the number-one factor that sets them apart from the pack is an aura of energy and actual energy. All high-powered executives have that.

You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger. The question is, how can you get the tiger back in the jungle?

People think of nature as something separate from us. Nature is a park, or someplace you go on vacation. But nature is all around us. It is part of us. It can help us with our problems. People don't think that but it's true.

No matter what we do, Nature remains our protector. Even as we ignore it, contamine it, destroy it, Nature offers us sympathy and love. It comforts us in our darkest hours. We do not deserve this. And still it is offered.