Planetary Harm Quotes

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.

Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.

People talk about drones like they're a bad thing, but they forget there are people behind them. It's a lot easier to blame the technology than to accept that people are a cancer on this planet.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.