Hans Jonas Quotes

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

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

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

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

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

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.

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

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

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

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

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