Bjorn Lomborg Quotes

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

People who are not addressing the issues of population control are not seriously addressing the environment.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

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

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.