Paul Hawken Quotes

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

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

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.

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

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

Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero.

The narrative of progress is no longer sustainable.

When the last tree is felled, Christ will return to the Earth.

We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth

I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.

Time is running out if we want our next generations and the generations after that to continue living on this beautiful planet.

I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.

Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

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.