Environmental Quotes - Page 40

• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

  Karl Marx

  Civilization, Done, Development

  Karl Marx, David Fernbach (1981). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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• Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

  Jon Meacham

  Ideas, Spheres, Needs

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• We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Atmosphere, Carbon

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

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• The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Nature, Self, Adequate

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• Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Issues, Climate

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• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Barack Obama

  Responsible Business, Class, Sound

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• There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

  Edward James Olmos

  Couple, Real, Iran

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• A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, Alaska, Location

  "Palin on global warming". www.theguardian.com. October 06, 2008.

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• Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

  Henry Paulson

  Odds, Opposites, Growth

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• Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

  Henry Paulson

  Working Together, Economic, China

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• We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

  Tom Peters

  Two, People, Supportive

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• To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Taken, Florida, Upheaval

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• I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Planes, Conferences

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• I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

  Maurice Strong

  Organization, Boards, Earth

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• Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

  Maurice Strong

  Leader, Important, Example

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• Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

  John Sununu

  Innovation, Benefits, Regulation

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• In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

  James Surowiecki

  Safety, Disaster, Executives

  "Fuel for Thought". www.newyorker.com. July 23, 2007.

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• Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Impact, Water

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• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Energy

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• The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

  Matt Taibbi

  Nfl, Problem, Workers

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• People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, People, Groups

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• We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

  Andrew Weil

  Powerful, People, Sick

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Confusion, Cost, Facts

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• I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Writing, People, Problem

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• If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.

  Ron Wyden

  Organization, World, Helping

  "Trade Rules Matter" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

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