Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

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

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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

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

Climate change is a sanctity of human life issue.

The supreme reality of our time is ... the vulnerability of this planet.

On this 50th Earth Day, we face a crisis unknown to those who gathered on the first Earth Day - the climate crisis.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

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

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

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

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.

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

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

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.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.