Environmental Priority Quotes

Protecting the environment is just as important a priority as the economic imperatives.

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

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

Conservation must become before recreation.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

I don't think anyone who's had a casual observation of the Trump administration will suggest that their priority is going to be environment, Indigenous and other things like that.

There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

We must make living in harmony with the Earth a priority. This is our home... the only one we have!

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

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

Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.