If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
We all are travelers traveling on a very big spaceship called Earth. Let's not ruin the engines of our very own spaceship in the name of development.
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
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.
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system...
You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by...
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?