environmental degradation quotes

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

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