Environmental Quotes
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
Ramez Naam -
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Majora Carter
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
Hans Blix -
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
Zac Goldsmith -
Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
Radhanath Swami -
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Garrett Hardin -
We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
Ed Rendell
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
Wendy Davis -
GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
Zac Goldsmith -
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
Ma Jun -
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
Ike Skelton -
The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
Naveen Jain
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner -
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
Ed Rendell -
Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
T. Boone Pickens -
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
Ramez Naam -
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
Ted Danson -
The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
Dan Lipinski
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Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
Kalle Lasn -
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton -
We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
Ma Jun -
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
Ace Frehley Kiss