Yoko Ono Quotes

Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Strip mining is man’s thorough and total assault upon his planet.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

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

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

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

The causal chain of the deterioration (of the environment) is easily followed to its source. Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticide, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide---all can be traced easily to too many people.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

Tar sands oil is dirtier, more corrosive, and worse for the environment than conventional oil.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

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

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.