Lewis Gordon Pugh Quotes

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

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.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

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

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.

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.

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

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 was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

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.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

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

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

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

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.