environmental Quotes

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a "fast reactor," that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then... ...

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by... ...

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].