Anohni Quotes

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

I do [believe climate change is man-made].

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

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.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

We are a plague on the Earth.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.