Robert D. Kaplan Quotes

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

We should be fingerprinting environmentalists... They are out to destroy the country.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.

I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

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

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

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

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.

The future will either be green or not at all.

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 fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.

I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

We the undersigned, senior members of the world's scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.

Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.

Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.