Environmental Quotes - Page 27

• They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a people protection agency. And they're out there trying to do their job and do the science.

  Josh Fox

  Jobs, Agency, People

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.

  Josh Fox

  Jobs, Cutting, Feel Better

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• Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Communication, Ignorance, Past

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• Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Would Be, Revolutionary, Forget

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• For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.

  Alan Weisman

  Years, People, Giving

  Source: www.today.com

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• The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger? How strong will they get as a result of warming? Those are still immersed in complexity. So in those realms that catch people's attention most, or that get used as symbols by environmental campaigners, those facets really do come with significant back-and-forthing.

  Andrew Revkin

  Strong, Sea, People

  "Q&A: Andrew C. Revkin". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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• I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.

  Andrew Revkin

  Hate, Media, Risk

  Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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• The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single most important issue facing the environmental community and communities as a whole.

  Jerome Ringo

  Issues, Community, Important

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

  Jerome Ringo

  Color, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Another thing I like about German cities - and it's an advantage which they haven't sufficiently exploited yet - is that they are pioneers when it comes to environmental technologies. And green solutions are becoming more and more important.

  Charles Landry

  Technology, Cities, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.

  Brad Duguid

  Angel, Organization, Impact

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• You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming from and at what social or environmental cost. For some people, what goes into their bodies has become an overriding obsession. Perhaps we are witnessing a successor to the Me Generation--namely, the Don't Care About the Rest of the World as Long as I Have a Spa and Some Omega-3 Fatty Acids Generation. Let's call it the Omega-3 Generation for short. Or is that thought just too depressing?

  Charles Clover

  Depressing, Reflection, Fatty Acids

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• Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

  Li Keqiang

  Life, Heart, People

  "China sets 7 per cent growth target, but challenges lie ahead". "PM", www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2015.

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• In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.

  Ian Mcewan

  War, Self, Order

  "The day of judgment, part two" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Summer, Children, Nice

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• The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption.... The greenest possible strategy is to mine and to bury, to fly and to tunnel, to search high and low, where the life mostly isn't, and so to leave the edge, the space in the middle, living and green.

  Peter W. Huber

  Tunnels, Space, Energy

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• An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

  Charles Handy

  Ideas, Growth, Add

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• The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

  Barry Commoner

  Signals, Crisis, Catastrophe

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• The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

  Naomi Oreskes

  People, Damage, Destruction

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Emotional, Civilization

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

  Michael Crichton

  Party, Differences, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Personality, Unhappy

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Historical, Individual Talent, Advantage

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• Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Lying, Wings

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• The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical

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