Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

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

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

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

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

I gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long term in relation to the environmental damage, climate change, and everything else because we don’t want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren and I do not want to be confronted by my future grandchild saying, “Well why didn’t you do something?”

If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.

Protecting our environment and natural resources is necessary for both our planet and our economy.

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

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.