Tony Campolo Quotes

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.

I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing.

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

I gone on for years about the importance of thinking about the long term in relation to the environmental damage, climate change, and everything else because we don’t want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren and I do not want to be confronted by my future grandchild saying, “Well why didn’t you do something?”

Rather than rewarding today’s voters with benefits financed by future generations, as Congress typically does, solving the climate problem will require costly actions now to protect those who will follow us.

We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

We gotta leave a better planet for our kids. And I would say we gotta leave better kids for our planet as well.