“My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.”
– Barry Commoner
“In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.”
– Barry Commoner
“By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.”
– Barry Commoner
“These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.”
– Galen Rowell
“Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.”
– Barry Commoner
“The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.”
– Barry Commoner
“Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.”
– Barry Commoner
“The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.”
– Barry Commoner
“Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?”
– David Frum
“I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.”
– David Frum
“Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.”
– Muhammad Yunus
“Americans don’t pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren’t sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn’t get anybody’s pulse racing.”
– Jeff Goodell
“You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.”
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry’s worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.”
– Jeff Goodell
“I don’t think it’s too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don’t wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you’re 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can’t be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.”
– Jello Biafra
“Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?”
– Jeff Goodell
“In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn’t have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.”
– Jeremy Rifkin
“The position I took at the time was that we hadn’t really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.”
– Jeremy Rifkin
“The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company’s bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.”
– Daniel Goleman
“The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.”
– Gaylord Nelson
“At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, ‘Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,’ we invariably choose the money.”
– Ethan Hawke
“A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.”
– Maurice Strong
“I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.”
– Maurice Strong
“I’ve developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.”
– Maurice Strong
“One of the things that I’ve always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.”
– Maurice Strong
“Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.”
– Maurice Strong
“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.”
– Barry Commoner
“The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.”
– Barry Commoner
“I really believe in the environmental movement right now – it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.”
– Brooke Burke
“I don’t see this planet being… they’re talking about how they’re turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it’s already too late.”
– Ace Frehley