James H. Douglas Jr. Quotes

The President [George W. Bush] is an oil man, indifferent to the environment.

Climate change poses a far greater threat to the outdoor industry than even the privatization of the public lands.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

I think there are changes in the environment. There are a lot of items to contribute to it.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

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.

Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.

The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

America's industrial strength was built on burning coal. No politician wanted to mess with coal.

We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

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

I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.

Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens.

Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life