Kathy Najimy Quotes

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?'

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

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.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Climate change is a sanctity of human life issue.

If we don't act now ..., we're going to have a very, very lost generation.