Sylvia Earle Quotes

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

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

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

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going to be around to see its worst effects, which are going to be hitting in the 2030s, '40s, '50s, but my kids will.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

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

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

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

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

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

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.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

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?

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

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.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

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

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Global warming and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.