• I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 97 reads

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• I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 169 reads

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• If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 30 reads

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• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 30 reads

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• It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 196 reads

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• Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 182 reads

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• Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 181 reads

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• Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 20 reads

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• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 181 reads

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• The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 68 reads

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• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 71 reads

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