Ace Frehley Quotes

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

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

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

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

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

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

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

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

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.

We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped.

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

We've been given the gift of a billion years of cosmic time, and we should not screw it up. But at the rate we're using up our planet's natural resources and fouling our own nest means we're not going to last a billion years.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

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

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

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.

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