Paul Ryan Quotes

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

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

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

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

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

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.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

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.

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

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

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.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

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

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

The future will either be green or not at all.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.

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.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

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.