Sharan Burrow Quotes

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

For the unions, it is simple. There are no jobs on a dead planet.

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

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.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save 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.

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.

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

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

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.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?