3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
3 December 2020 Alexandra Paul For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I’m doing the right thing by the animals.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 David Frum Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
3 December 2020 Fred Upton Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
3 December 2020 Jerry Costello This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.
3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke 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.
3 December 2020 David R. Brower There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
3 December 2020 Anita Roddick The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don’t tend to support big agencies.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
3 December 2020 Sue Kelly My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
3 December 2020 Ted Danson We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
3 December 2020 Luther Burbank If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
3 December 2020 Daryl Hannah And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it’s not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It’s really just common sense.
3 December 2020 John Hickenlooper I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn’t pose a serious environmental issue.
3 December 2020 Adam Schiff Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.
3 December 2020 Jim Clyburn Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth’s best interests and our citizen’s pressing needs.
3 December 2020 John Key New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don’t do that – and you want to lead the world – then you might end up getting unintended consequences.
3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight – the fight for electoral justice.
3 December 2020 David Suzuki In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
3 December 2020 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.
