Natural Resources Quotes - Page 9

• I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources which do not generate the heat that is currently provided by fossil fuels. I concur that climate change is beginning to [have an] effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, People, Climate

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• There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Powerful, Mean, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

  Ramez Naam

  Technology, Pie, Environmental

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.

  Immortal Technique

  Police, Suffering, Behaviour

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

  Louis Bacon

  Honor, Generations, Wonderful

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• We don't have a long of natural resources as a country; we have a very beautiful country. Visually, I mean, everyone goes on about it's green, it's the mountains and the rivers and it's clean and it's not that populated. It is stunningly beautiful, but we've no oil. We've no coal. We've no money. We just have Ireland.

  Gavin Friday

  Beautiful, Country, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

  Tucker Carlson

  Taken, People, Canada

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Temptation, Might

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• The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.

  Tariq Ali

  Oil, Principles, United States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Europe, Gold

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.

  Evo Morales

  Fighting, Oil, Giving

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

  Evo Morales

  Hands, Majority, Use

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

  John Moody

  California, People, Development

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

  Steven Solomon

  Men, Water, Scarcity

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• Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Long, Vision

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• It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment.

  Klaus Topfer

  Air, Land, Lunch

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• In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Time, Texas, Years

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• There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Alaska, People, Trying

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• We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  War, Loss, Hands

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• The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rhythm Of Life, Giving

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ecosystems, Together, Three

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• No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

  Margaret Sanger

  Death, Science, Privilege

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Rights, Pieces, Natural

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• When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Unique, Hustle, Louisiana

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