Barry Commoner Quotes

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home - Earth - is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.

Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

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.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

It has been acknowledged for many years the current level of human population growth is unsustainable and places acute pressure on global resources. Human activity is exacerbating global warming, and higher population levels inevitably mean higher emissions and more climate change victims.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.