Quotes About Environment

Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.

When I discovered that hexavalent chromium was causing cancer in the town of Hinkley, California, it led to residents being paid $333m in compensation. But, unbelievably, that chemical remains in our drinking water.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

If we hand over a planet with an uncertain future, history will not forgive us.

Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!