Jody Williams Quotes

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

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

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

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.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

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.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?'

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

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

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

On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

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

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

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

The future will either be green or not at all.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

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

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

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've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate.