Richard Rogers Quotes

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

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.

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

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

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

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

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

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century

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 massive tampering with the world's interdependent web of life—coupled with the environmental damage inflicted by deforestation, species loss, and climate change—could trigger widespread adverse effects, including unpredictable collapses of critical biological systems whose interactions and dynamics we only imperfectly understand. Uncertainty over the extent of these effects cannot excuse complacency or delay in facing the threats.

If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

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

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

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.