The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single most important issue fac…

- Jerome Ringo

I think that as an individual and as individuals in general, if we can't leave the earth feeling like we left something that someone in the future ca…

- Jerome Ringo

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

- Jerome Ringo

I think that environmentalists have been terribly misunderstood over the years. I believe that anyone that cares about the earth is an environmentali…

- Jerome Ringo

Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just lea…

- Jerome Ringo

One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of pr…

- Jerome Ringo

Its going to require a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases and hopefully derail some of the adverse impacts that we are experiencing today and t…

- Jerome Ringo

I am more of a conservationist, myself. And people have come to me and said, "Wow, you're an African-American conservationist!" And my response is, "…

- Jerome Ringo