Antonio Guterres Quotes

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

Pollution, overfishing, the destruction of habitats, and climate change are emptying the oceans and enabling the lowest forms of life to regain their dominance.

Over the last several decades, human activity have so altered the basic chemistry of the seas that they are now experiencing evolution in reverse to the barren primeval waters of hundreds of millions of years ago.

The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.

Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue, and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem because plastic waste ends up in our air, our soil, our oceans, and in our food.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.

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

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

The very survival of the human species depends upon the maintenance of an ocean clean and alive.... The ocean is our planet's life belt.

The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.

It is time to get rid of the harmful and dangerous practice of offshore drilling once and for all.

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean.

When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

This plastic doesn't go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to be fragmented into these small and dangerous microplastics to me seems like an unacceptable scenario.

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

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

Our beaches should not be garbage dumps. Our oceans must not be cesspools.