Barry Gardiner Quotes

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

We've seen that if we do not pollute, then the environment becomes so beautiful.

If there is a future, it will be Green.

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

We've got to take care of the resources we have on this planet, because there's no resupply possible.

We ought to move toward the objective of allowing our state to become number one, not in the protection of toxic substances, but in the prosecution of those who are polluting our environment.

Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.

EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.

Californians want to have clean air, clean water - not like the Trump Administration is trying to do with its rollback of environmental regulations, like the reversal of the Clean Power Plan.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.