Helen Caldicott Quotes

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere.

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

If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

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

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

The natural world is not indestructible.

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

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Industries who profit by the rape of our environment see to it that legislators friendly to their attitudes are elected, and that bureaucrats of similar attitude are appointed.

White males are most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. Yet who is controlling the supposed revolution to change all that? White males.

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas…. God said “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

Environmental degradation and pollution constrain economic growth, contribute to large-scale migration, harm public health, and engender social unrest.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be climate change and the failure to adequately deal with the consequences of poverty.