Sonny Rollins Quotes

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The earth is going to survive, it's the people that aren't.

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.

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?

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more than its share of troubles, most of them the kind that might have been prevented.

There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.

The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.