Douglas Adams Quotes

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.

The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going to confront a crisis from which we cannot return. The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

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'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.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.

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.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.