Environmental Quotes - Page 35

• Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

  Tom Morello

  Ignorance, Trump, Planets

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Parent, Technique

  Source: progressive.org

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• The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from planned lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, mountaintop removal is killing families throughout Appalachia, and oil/mining companies continue to denigrate Native American and indigenous rights throughout the world (see North Dakota Pipeline presently). This is horrific - and yet we somehow consider it normal.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Drinking, Native American, Oil

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they call The Sacrifice Zones of America and report on the current state of our environmental calamity.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Book, Sacrifice, America

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The international human rights framework is a vital component and engine for promoting global values. Governments have signed up to this international legal framework and we should hold them accountable, in all circumstances from environmental or labour standards, to trade talks, arms control and security issues as well as other international legal codes.

  Mary Robinson

  Issues, Rights, Government

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit from open trade they would be required to implement immediately labour and environmental standards of a comparable level to those applied in industrialised countries. At the same time, debates about the primacy of trade as against human rights legal codes have contributed to maintaining the unfortunate impression that the two bodies of law are pursuing incompatible aims.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Order, Law

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

  David Brooks

  Agency, Republican, Sensitive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Influence, Hormones, Stimulus

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think that when it comes to issues of trade, I think it is important for us to be in favor of trade, but I also think it is important to make sure that we are putting in place the labor standards, the environmental standards, that are going to provide some of a fighting chance for American workers.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.politico.com

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• [Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Christian, Running, Mean

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I want regulations because I want safety, I want environmental - all environmental situations to be taken properly care of. It's very important to me. But you don't need four or five or six regulations to take care of the same thing.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Safety, Important

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The government of Qatar, as I mentioned, has proposed to come and lease Kenya's Tana River delta in order to farm there. What I am not sure of is, has an environmental impact assessment been made to ensure that exploiting this delta for agricultural activities is the best way we can use the delta?We must be concerned about the long-term impact of agricultural activities in the delta.

  Wangari Maathai

  Order, Qatar, Rivers

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good. This common good also includes the earth... the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all.

  Pope Francis

  Jobs, Roots, Challenges

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people in Bangladesh and 300 million people in Indonesia need to move, and the entire Chinese seaboard, New York City - that's going to be huge.

  Mohsin Hamid

  New York, Moving, Thinking

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

  David E. Cooper

  Focus, Ethics, Virtue

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of animals, and so on - but a person can ask him- or herself how he or she personally may exercise compassion or humility towards animals, vegetal life and so on.

  David E. Cooper

  Humility, Exercise, Compassion

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Art, Stress, Moving

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that to some extent they are educating their parents. They are tackling issues of waste disposal and so on. The schools help, because they put a lot of stress on environmental awareness.

  Mary Robinson

  Stress, School, Issues

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.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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• If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Government, Community

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.

  Patti Smith

  Running, Strong, Wall

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."

  Riane Eisler

  Strong, Kings, Past

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.

  Riane Eisler

  Balance

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the way the physical organs of the body develop. That is, in their fundamental character they are innate; their basic form is determined by the genetic structure of the organism. Of course, they grow under particular environmental conditions, assuming a specific form that admits of some variation. Much of what is distinctive among human beings is a specific manner in which a variety of shared cognitive structures develop.

  Noam Chomsky

  Character, Feelings, Variation

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cost, Speed, Social

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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