Bruce Babbitt Quotes

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

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

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

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

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

Nature does not have the capacity to heal all the wounds that have been inflicted upon it by mankind.

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

The millions and millions and millions of tons of toxic waste dumped into rivers and ocean. Extracting materials in a way that's not sustainable. All of those things suddenly in the last, I want to say, couple years alone, they matter to people. That's a big deal.

I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.

President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

Capitalism is destroying the earth.