These animals washing up with their stomachs filled with plastic was devastating not only because of their incredible intelligence, but because they even help keep the entire ocean alive.
If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.
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.
Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
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Change the System! Not the Climate!
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.
There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.
There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.
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
To love the world is to be afflicted.
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.
Protecting the climate and nature is one of the biggest challenges of our time that we can only tackle together.
Olaf Scholz - September 2020
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
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.
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.
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
Joe Biden (as Vice President of the United States) - Mai 2014
This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.
Greta Thunberg (Climate activist)
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
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)
1This is money well spent. If we ignore climate change, it's gonna cost us a lot more.
Angela Merkel - September 2019
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
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.
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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.
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.
Something will have gone out of us as a people, if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.
Wallace Stegner - 1960
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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: "So you don't want coffee?"
Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 Episode 17
The oceans are home for up to 80% of all life on Earth.
If the ocean dies, so do we.
What are you talking about, saving the ocean? How can you do that? You can't even fix this. This is the size of a football field.
I whale always love you!
Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.
Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.