Greg Dworkin Quotes

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

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.

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

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

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

Defending the planet means changing the world.

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

The 50th Earth Day was always going to be special, but the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more so. The unprecedented steps the world has taken to slow the spread of the virus have dramatically reduced the number of cars on the road, planes in the air, and oil being pulled from the ground.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.