Ulrich Beck Quotes

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

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

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.

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.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

I love all of the Earth.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

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

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.

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

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

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.