Ian Bremmer Quotes

I resent the idea that somebody in Washington will protect our environment better than we can.

Of all the unpopular things that Donald Trump is doing, the polling shows that the one that's most out of whack with Americans' opinions are these attacks on the environment. And it means, too, that people are going to have to start stepping up a little bit in other places.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be climate change and the failure to adequately deal with the consequences of poverty.

When it comes to the environment in our own backyard, we understand it far better than anybody in Washington D.C.

I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you help the planet?

Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.

Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth as we have in the past ... [A] new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives.

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.