The best Quotes by Barry Commoner

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.

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.

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Change the System! Not the Climate!

Conservation & Environment Protection Fridays for Future

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

King Charles III

Conservation & Environment Protection

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.

Rishi Sunak

Conservation & Environment Protection

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Humanity Animals Conservation & Environment Protection

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Conservation & Environment Protection

To love the world is to be afflicted.

Yunus Emre

Conservation & Environment Protection

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

David Attenborough

Nature & Environment Conservation & Environment Protection Air

Protecting the climate and nature is one of the biggest challenges of our time that we can only tackle together.

Olaf Scholz - September 2020

Conservation & Environment Protection

In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones. And it's time to act!

Joe Biden - January 2021

Conservation & Environment Protection Climate Change

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

Evo Morales

Earth Conservation & Environment Protection

I don't accept the Republicans' argument that boldly addressing climate change and having the world's strongest economy are incompatible. I believe that the exact opposite of that is true. Tackling our climate challenges will provide us with the opportunity to grow our economy, protect public health, and propel the United States to become the world leader in green innovation in the 21st century.

Elizabeth Warren

Conservation & Environment Protection

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

Joe Biden (as Vice President of the United States) - Mai 2014

Conservation & Environment Protection Climate Change

This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist)

Conservation & Environment Protection

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist) - September 2019, Rede beim UN Klimagipfel

2019 Conservation & Environment Protection

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist)

2019 Conservation & Environment Protection Fridays for Future

This is money well spent. If we ignore climate change, it's gonna cost us a lot more.

Angela Merkel - September 2019

Conservation & Environment Protection

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

Angela Merkel

Conservation & Environment Protection

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

Martin Sheen

Generations Conservation & Environment Protection

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Richard Rogers

Conservation & Environment Protection

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Alex Trebek

Nature & Environment Conservation & Environment Protection

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Stewart Udall

Nature & Environment Conservation & Environment Protection Air

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

Kevin Bacon

Conservation & Environment Protection Plastic

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Generations Conservation & Environment Protection

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.

Ed Begley Jr.

Conservation & Environment Protection

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

John Muir

Trees Conservation & Environment Protection

Something will have gone out of us as a people, if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.

Wallace Stegner - 1960

Conservation & Environment Protection

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold

Conservation & Environment Protection

Marshall: "If economic sanctions and trade-restrictions aren't enforced, the destruction of the rainforest will continue and over a million species will be wiped out!"
Ted: "So you don't want coffee?"

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 Episode 17

Conservation & Environment Protection

Earth's tombstone may be like:
"Everyone wanted the best - for themselves."

Siegfried Lenz

Egoism Earth Conservation & Environment Protection

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

Smartphones

There are well over 250 victims, so we have to make sure that their identity is protected. Other than that, I think tomorrow you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office. What you're gonna see is a lot of flight-logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

James Comey

FBI

It's sitting on my desk right now to review. The Trump administration is committed to truth and transparency.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

It's a very delicate subject but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it.

Mike Johnson - July 2025

The Epstein Files

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

Pam Bondi

Florida

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

Pam Bondi

Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.

Pam Bondi

Donald Trump

Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.

Pam Bondi

All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

Pam Bondi

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