Ecological Effect Quotes

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're a very bad way to design a transportation system.

You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it.

Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much carbon is free in the atmosphere. At that point, it became clear that humans were affecting our environments far more profoundly than we realized. By releasing so much carbon and greenhouse gas into the environment, we're making long-term changes to every aspect of the natural world.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

Every footstep we take, every action has a consequence. We breathe in weather, but we breathe out CO2. We're responsible for weather and for climate.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

The climate change issue is real and we are seeing its effects right here in South Carolina.

I have a car, but I don't use it very much - only when I go for my shoots - so the carbon footprint is tiny.

The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.