James Hansen Quotes

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, then we will pass a danger point, beyond which the consequences for many people and countries on Earth will simply become unacceptable and eventually disastrous.

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what we're doing to the oceans - and none of it makes any sense to me.

In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

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.

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.