Environmentalism Quotes - Page 2

• We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra

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• And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Rights, Other Cultures, Names

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• Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Eye, Errors, Cake

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• Peace is a conscious choice.

  John Denver

  Peace, Choices, Conscious

  Thomas F. Crum, John Denver (1988). “The magic of conflict: turning a life of work into a work of art”, Touchstone Books

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• Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Two, Luxury, People

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

  Michael Crichton

  Needs, Spheres, Fantasy

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
  Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

  Michael Crichton

  Atheist, Powerful, Choices

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

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• I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Years, Risk

  "With Eye On Future, Billionaire Investor Bets On Paul". www.npr.org. May 19, 2012.

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• I'm sick of environmentalism.

  Tracey Ullman

  Sick

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• Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

  David Suzuki

  Thinking, Order, Differences

  "David Suzuki and his daughter, Severn, in town to talk of adventures and activism". The Star Interview, www.thestar.com. February 25, 2013.

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• When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

  Bill McKibben

  People, Black, World

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Special, Global Warming, Problem

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Running, Children

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• Environmentalism, I'd always been told, was just rich white people.

  Bill McKibben

  White, People, Rich

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The problem to me with environmentalism is the idea that we're all gonna die and we need to save ourselves. I don't think it's necessarily the right way to go about it, because I think we need to really just improve our every moment and improve our quality of life. And that will, sort of by default, save us.

  Adrian Grenier

  Thinking, Ideas, Quality

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• Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Dangerous, Ideology, Humans

  YouTube Chanel "bbcworldnews"/ "HARDtalk with Vaclav Klaus", www.youtube.com. November 13, 2007.

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• The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Real, Order

  "The Biofuels Debacle". www.nysun.com. April 28, 2008.

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• I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

  Adrian Grenier

  Fun, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

  Sherman Alexie

  Shoes, Luxury, Worry

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Democracy, Ambitious, Arrogant

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• Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

  Michael Crichton

  People, Politics, Millions

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.

  George Will

  Reality, Understanding, Notable

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• The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Climate, Temperature, Global Warming

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• In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

  Aberjhani

  Book, Winter, Clouds

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Zoos, Rooms

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