Philippe Perrin Quotes

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

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

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

My father gave me this poster from National Geographic back in the very early 70s, so I was a young teenager. It showed how man polluted his world. And the issues that they talked about, whether it was water pollution, air, or terrestrial... The issues that they talk about on this poster are still very much present today.

We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That's nonsense.

It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.

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?

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

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

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

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

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

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.

It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.

I do believe this period of the 1980's will be remembered as the time the planet struck back. The planet is telling us we can't treat it this way anymore.

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

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.