Derrick Jensen Quotes

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

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

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

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

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

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

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

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

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.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad, when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.