Ecological Threat Quotes

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Climate change is very real.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

On this 50th Earth Day, we face a crisis unknown to those who gathered on the first Earth Day - the climate crisis.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

Climate change is a complex challenge, and one that will not be easily solved.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

There is no Plan B becasue there is no Planet B.

I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

When is the proper time to cry wolf. Must we wait until the prey, in this case the world’s environment, is mangled by the wolf’s grip.

Climate change is threatening ecosystems in South Carolina, while making it less safe and more costly to live along our coastline.

There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are.

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

I was and am an ardent environmentalist and I am terrified of the instability that climate change will bring.

Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact it should be seen at the very center of the ecological crisis, as the cloud-covered Everest of which the more immediate, visible kinds of harm to the environment are the mere foothills.