#environmentalism

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? ↗

— Jane Goodall

#environmentalism #nature #preservation #nature

One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land around Chernobyl, the bomb test sites of the Pacific, and areas near the United States’ Savannah River nuclear weapons plant of the Second World War. Wild plants and animals do not perceive radiation as dangerous, and any slight reduction it may cause in their lifespans is far less a hazard than is the presence of people and their pets. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environmentalism

Perhaps our and Gaia’s greatest error was the conscious abuse of fire. Cooking meat over a wood fire may have been acceptable, but the deliberate destruction of whole ecosystems by fire merely to drive out the animals within was surely our first great sin against the living Earth. It has haunted us ever since and combustion could now be our auto da fé, and the cause of our extinction. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environmentalism

Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history. ↗

— The Wombat

#true #environmentalism

I'm sick of environmentalism. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#i #sick

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun! ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#fun #i #people #show #show people

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. ↗

— Al Gore

#environment

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it. ↗

— David Attenborough

#nature #science #nature

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

#activism