Quotes About Impact

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

Eating is an environmental act.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Environment is stronger than will.

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.