Environmental Issues Quotes - Page 2

• With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

  Denis Hayes

  Kids, Cutting, Lakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

  Mike Love

  Mother, Home, Years

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.

  Jed Diamond

  Issues, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

  Ramez Naam

  Thinking, Oil, Issues

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

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• Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Mistake, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• Once you figure out something about the watershed, you'll find out where the schools are going to hell, and the kids aren't learning, and there is no money. Social issues, class issues, and environmental issues were all connected.

  Robert Hass

  School, Kids, Class

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on.

  Bill McKibben

  Taken, Kyoto, Issues

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Issues, Environmental, Causes

  "What’s Around the Social Media Corner for Brands in 2013" by Amy Jo Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.

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• Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

  Maude Barlow

  Inspirational, Change, Real

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• It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.

  Giorgio Armani

  Change, Running, Fashion

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• Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Simple, Kyoto Protocol, Issues

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• I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Believe, Thinking, Issues

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• When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Future, Issues, Judging

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• People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

  Michael Pollan

  Issues, People, Environmental

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• Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

  Philippe Starck

  Real, Fighting, Issues

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• In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Issues, Choices

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• The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.

  Jon Pareles

  Issues, Ecosystems, Effort

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• I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

  Julian Lennon

  Issues, Environmental, Humanitarian

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

  Jonathon Porritt

  Issues, Environmental, Climate

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• [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Issues, Environmental, Politics

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• I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Opportunity, Issues, Voice

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• The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of graduates who are able to think deeply and broadly about these issues, and help develop novel solutions for Singapore, Asia and beyond. I am delighted at this programme for another reason - it is the first undergraduate course that draws on expertise from eight Faculties in NUS, making full use of the comprehensive strengths of our University.

  Tan Chorh Chuan

  Thinking, Issues, Eight

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• The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Dna, Decisions We Make, Land

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• When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

  Noam Chomsky

  Zero, War, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We need more emphasis on linking jobs and economic progress with environmental issues, and not allowing environmentally damaging industries to be brought into the country simply to provide employment. It's not easy to balance.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Jobs, Issues

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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