Mikhail Gorbachev best Equality Quotes – “I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.”
David Suzuki best Environmental Quotes – “I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.”
Brian Eno best Age Quotes – “I’d been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it’s environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‘ambient music.’ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.”
Douglas Rushkoff best Environmental Quotes – “What’s it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it’s not altogether pleasant.”
Jairam Ramesh best Environmental Quotes – “I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India’s track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.”
Judith Rodin best Environmental Quotes – “A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.”
Sigourney Weaver best Environmental Quotes – “People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.”
Margaret Atwood best Environmental Quotes – “If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.”
Marcus Brigstocke best Environmental Quotes – “I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.”
Wendy Davis best Environmental Quotes – “The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality – what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.”
Natalie Jeremijenko best Environmental Quotes – “This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn’t work.”
Natalie Jeremijenko best Environmental Quotes – “We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.”
Natalie Jeremijenko best Environmental Quotes – “Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.”
Holly Robinson Peete best Environmental Quotes – “I’m not a doctor or scientist. I’m just a mom. But I do think there’s a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child’s case, is what resulted in autism.”
Daniel Pauly best Environmental Quotes – “While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people – even those who profess great environmental consciousness – continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.”