Environmental Issues Quotes

Chile has changed. The people have become more mature and they are more conscious of their rights. They want to participate and have a say about things such as if and where a power plant can be built.

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

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.

The issues of environment, health and education should be taken up vigorously.

The issues that we're having with water are worse and the magnitude is bigger than anything I imagined possible.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

People who are not addressing the issues of population control are not seriously addressing the environment.

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and insisting that a woman's body is not her own.

It's hard to find a reason that is not environmentally centered, that [doesn't have] something to do with global warming or what the planet is going through. The amount of tornadoesit's like three times the highest amount ever before, right? Something weird is happening with all of these natural catastrophes.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.