James Balog Quotes

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

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?

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.

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

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

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

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

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

We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.