Jeff Goodell Quotes

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

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

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.