Jean Houston Quotes

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

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.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

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

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

Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.

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

My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.

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.

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.