Sharan Burrow Quotes

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

Since sixth grade, I've been learning that the climate is deteriorating and the planet is dying, and it is up to us to keep our planet safe.

On this 50th Earth Day, we face a crisis unknown to those who gathered on the first Earth Day - the climate crisis.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that.

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you see where I live. I love the environment. And - and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don't want government to put artificial standards on us.

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

The only way we can hope to combat climate change, protect our precious land and water, and prevent future extreme weather disasters is to cut the carbon pollution that’s warming our planet, and replace dirty energy sources with clean, renewable sources.

I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment.

If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.

To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.

Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions spares our planet from the well-documented degradation that we are witnessing on a global basis.

My family and I want to start our own organization to work on global warming and a couple of other things.

Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.

We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that - how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It's something we can get behind.

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.