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As consumers, we need to demand that companies sell us sustainable products that do not disregard and destroy our natural world.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.