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We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

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• Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Food
  • Single
  • Environmental

• I don't plan on being bashful.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Being
  • Plan
  • Bashful

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Down
  • Environmental

• There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Issues
  • Environmental
  • Table

• Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Really
  • Just
  • Plan

• What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Doing
  • Planet
  • Inexcusable

• Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Healthy
  • Environmental

• By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Political
  • Environmental

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Impossible
  • Environmental

• I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Truth
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  • Truth Is

• I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Environmental

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Years

• I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Animal
  • Environmental

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
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  • Economic
  • Program

• Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Single
  • Challenge
  • Driving

• So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • True
  • Path
  • Planet

• The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Planet
  • Serve
  • American military

• We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

  

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