Quotes About Environment

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ'' out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

COâ'' emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.