Henry Rollins Quotes

Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

At about 9.5 billion people, the world will run out of fresh water.

Many of the wars this century were about oil, but those of the next century will be over water

I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.

The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.

Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

I'm working on a film called 'Bonnie.' Bonnie means water. It's in English, and it's dealing with a future world in a megacity - which is what the U.N. says we're going to be - but in this megacity, a city that runs out of water.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

We will run out of air long before we run out of oil.

In the United States you use more oil than water. Water takes a few days to recycle. Oil takes 4 million years.

There is a liquid more precious than oil – water!

Water is one of the world’s great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th.

We'll never know the worth of water till the well goes dry.

More than half the world’s people live in countries where water tables are falling.

It'll go away only if we make it go away—by not using water.

No water—no jobs.

In our wildest dreams we never thought water would be a zero-sum game.

Conservation programs are great but when you’ve already done all the conservation and you got no water, how does that help you? It doesn’t. The only thing that could help us now, is water.

There is enough water ... but the systems we have in place do not have enough flexibility to move water to the places where it is most needed.

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.

We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.