George Monbiot Quotes

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

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.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.