Environmental Quotes - Page 25

• If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.

  Stanley Krippner

  War, Two, People

  Source: cynthiasuelarson.wordpress.com

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• What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Book, Clothes

  "Patagonia clothing founder ponders politics, saving Earth". Interview with Amanda Griscom Little, www.nbcnews.com. October 28, 2004.

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• The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

  Barry Commoner

  Facts, Affluence, Population

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• As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Bmw, Vitality, Driving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you, as CEO, have recognized an approach as being the right one, you have to pursue it consistently, even if some people disagree. But it is now clear to everyone that we, as an automaker, have no alternative but to take [environmental protection] course.

  Norbert Reithofer

  People, Alternatives, Protection

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what
  we have attempted to do is to say that environmental concerns should certainly be addressed. We're not suggesting that any kind of development trample upon the existing laws that are there to insure that we maintain as high a quality of environment as possible.

  George Deukmejian

  Thinking, Law, Support

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• I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of many things would slow down at least for awhile. Stockholders don't want to hear about the saving of the whales or some stream in Kentucky. They want a return on their investment.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Kentucky, Whales

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.

  Lester R. Brown

  Years, Oil, Generations

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• Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil.

  Lester R. Brown

  Light, Oil, Nuclear

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• Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

  Jerry Brown

  Issues, Nuclear, Vietnam

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• Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

  Lester R. Brown

  Rising Prices, Scarcity, Demand

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• Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

  Lester R. Brown

  Insecurity, Growth, Population

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• Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

  Lester R. Brown

  Doors, Growth, Enemy

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• Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

  Lester R. Brown

  Challenges, Humanity, May

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• Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing... Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Ice, Snow

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• If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.

  Amory Lovins

  Giving, Energy, Needs

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• We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

  Russell E. Train

  Opportunity, Energy, Fundamentals

  "Letters", www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1979.

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• The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

  Reid Bryson

  Air, Population, Earth

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• We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Blessing, Rivers, Knowing

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• Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

  Edward Young

  Men, Made, Save Mother Earth

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• I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

  George Porter

  War, Successful, Green World

  The Observer, August 26, 1973.

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• There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

  Thomas Moore

  Becoming, Culture, Way

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• Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Science, Data

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• We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.

  Wade Davis

  Country, Dog, Cities

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• For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.

  Ray Anderson

  Zero, Responsibility, Years

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