Andrea Durbin Quotes

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

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.

The future will either be green or not at all.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Pollution doesn't respect state boundaries and it is difficult if not impossible to solve these problems on a state by state basis.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

What’s been going on for years is political science, not good science in the environmental area.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

China’s air quality is grim, and the amount of pollution emissions far exceeds the environment’s capacity.

China is the world’s second largest economy, but the enormous costs of its growth are becoming apparent. Residents of its boom cities and a growing number of rural regions question the safety of the air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. It is as if they were living in the Chinese equivalent of the Chernobyl or Fukushima nuclear disaster areas. The environmental hazards here are legion, and the consequences might not manifest themselves for years or even decades.

I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment.

I'm not going to argue with scientists how much human activity affects natural environment, including climate.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.