Jeremy Grantham Quotes

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

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.

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.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

Defending the planet means changing the world.

Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

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.

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.

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

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

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

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

The future will either be green or not at all.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.