Gail Bradbrook Quotes

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

On this 50th Earth Day, we face a crisis unknown to those who gathered on the first Earth Day - the climate crisis.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.