Mike Gallagher Quotes

Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.

I do think that if people are taking the time to think about their environmental footprint when it comes to how many flights they take, whether or not they have a 4X4, whether or not they are going to have a patio heater, then putting the question to themselves about how many kids they are going to have is a reasonable thing to do.

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

I try to be eco-friendly in every possible way.

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

I planted trees but the idea that you can offset carbon is nonsense - planting trees is more a way of acknowledging harm and apologising.

It is not easy to attain carbon neutrality by 2050.

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out.