Quotes About Impact

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

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

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

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

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.