Pat Cadigan Quotes

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened.

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

The world's forests are being destroyed at the rate of one football field's worth every second. One Tennessee's worth every year.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

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

The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

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.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.