Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
that provide something very useful.”
- Dr David Frame,
climate modeler, Oxford University
- Al Gore,
Climate Change activist
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of Greenpeace
frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
- emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest
opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level."
- Al Gore,
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
All we need is the right major crisis..."
- David Rockefeller,
Club of Rome executive member
despite the fact that most people barely notice the warming yet."
- Dr James Hansen,
NASA researcher
- Sir James Lovelock,
Revenge of Gaia
rise of seven meters. That's bye-bye most of Bangladesh,
Netherlands, Florida and would make London the new Atlantis."
- Greenpeace International
It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world."
- Harry Reid,
U.S. Senate majority leader
human civilization has ever faced."
- Angela Merkel,
German Chancellor
and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new
global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster."
- Barack Obama,
US President
- Tony Blair,
former British PM
will envision a global agenda that encompasses
a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the
causes of poverty and suffering and
environmental destruction all over the earth."
- Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance
indeed a sacred principle of international relations.
It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to
the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation."
- UN Commission on Global Governance report
be a new form of the ten commandments.
They lay the foundation for a sustainable
global earth community."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
co-author of The Earth Charter
political and economic systems are no longer appropriate
and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet.
We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways."
- Dr Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General,
to the international community and beginning to create a
new system of international environmental governance
as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises."
- Lester Brown,
WorldWatch Institute
We foresee a seamless system of governance from
local communities, individual states, regional unions
and up through to the United Nations itself."
- UN Commission on Global Governance
emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress.
We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking."
- Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum
reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources....
- UN Agenda 21
which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."
- David Brower,
founder of Friends of the Earth
saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have
an ecologically sound society under socialism.
I don't think it is possible under capitalism"
- Judi Bari,
principal organiser of Earth First!
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme
United States. De-development means bringing our
economic system into line with the realities of
ecology and the world resource situation."
- Paul Ehrlich,
Professor of Population Studies
Michael Oppenheimer
- Professor Maurice King
for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness
millions of acres of presently settled land."
- David Foreman,
Earth First!
human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to
discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy,
because of what we might do with it."
- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
worst thing that could happen to the planet."
- Jeremy Rifkin,
Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."
- Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
doing too well economically and burning too much oil."
– Sir James Lovelock,
BBC Interview
-Dave Foreman,
co-founder of Earth First!
affluent middle class - involving high meat intake,
use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,
and suburban housing - are not sustainable."
- Maurice Strong,
Rio Earth Summit
selfish and unethical animal on the earth."
- Michael Fox,
vice-president of The Humane Society
have no more value than slugs."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
at the present North American material standard of living
would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard
of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
- United Nations,
Global Biodiversity Assessment
a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
- Ted Turner,
founder of CNN and major UN donor
more than 500 million but less than one billion."
- Club of Rome,
Goals for Mankind
twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say.
In order to stabilize world population,we must eliminate
350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say,
but it's just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau,
UNESCO
as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
patron of the World Wildlife Fund
It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
only be inevitable but a good thing."
- Christopher Manes, Earth First!
for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve every
problem on Earth - social and environmental.”
- Ingrid Newkirk,
former President of PETA
society, unless the parents hold a government license.
All potential parents should be required to use
contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing
antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower,
Sierra Club
we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."
- Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights