Mark Hertsgaard > Quotes

“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it [is] rich countries’ consumption patterns that [are] responsible for the vast majority of the world’s resource depletion and ecosystem destruction?”
― Mark Hertsgaard

“The government has incredible powers at its disposal, and when it abuses those powers, someone has to stand up.”
― Mark Hertsgaard, Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden

“Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.”
― Mark Hertsgaard, Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future