Environmental impact Quotes

"We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe"

"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them"

"The more we take, the less there is for future generations"

"The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies, or jellyfish"

"This generation is the first to feel the impact of climate change and the last that can prevent its worst consequences."

"The trail of the human serpent is over everything."

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."

"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future."

"Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism."

"Climate change knows no borders"