Sun Ra Quotes

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened.

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

We got a dying world around us.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.

We live in an epoch of denudation.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

There is no Plan B becasue there is no Planet B.

Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.

I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more difficult. The rising sense of panic I feel is entirely rational; we should all be feeling it. But we can't live with it through every hour of every day.