Environmentalist Quotes - Page 4

• I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Thinking, Track, Environmental

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• An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

  Howard Lyman

  Giving, Meat, Charity

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• Im an environmentalist; I recycle.

  Kyrsten Sinema

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• A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference.

  Jane Goodall

  Women, Book, Differences

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• If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out-provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life-but one cannot remain in the womb forever.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Years, Car

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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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• Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

  Winona LaDuke

  Cutting, Paper, Toilets

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• The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

  Vandana Shiva

  Justice, Environmental, Roles

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• Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

  Van Jones

  People, Champion, Energy

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• "Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.

  Walter E. Williams

  Dream, Tools, Communist

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.274, Hoover Institution Press

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• My grandfather was a prominent executive at Chevron (oil), and of course my father is a fairly radical and progressive environmentalist. But he was also a very active Democrat and pacifist. More importantly, he was one of the best storytellers I've ever met. I think that trait has been passed down the line, even to my kids.

  James Redford

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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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, Environmental

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

  David Foreman

  Aids Epidemic, Epidemics, Population

  "Are There Just too Many People in the World?" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?

  Peter Ferrara

  Men, Data, Awards

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• Republican politicians are contributed to heavily by climate change, global warming, environmentalist wackos. That's how they're brought on board with this, and that's why an outsider like Trump is so appealing to so many people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Climate, Boards

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

  Dale Jamieson

  Animal, Agriculture, Destruction

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

  David Foreman

  Race, Environmental, Earth

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• I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Cheating, Free Market, Marketers

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• Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  People, Energy, Pollution

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• I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment?

  Karen Dawn

  Animal, People, Majority

  "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Christian, New York, Real

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.

  Andrew Linzey

  Nature, Responsibility, Men

  Andrew Linzey (1976). “Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals”, SCM Press

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• Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras, she was one of the world's best-known environmentalists and had recently opposed plans for a dam on a river considered sacred by the Lenca. Honduran police have said they are investigating the murder as a botched robbery, but many of her colleagues believe Caceres was targeted.

  Renee Montagne

  Country, Believe, Home

  "Honduran Indigenous Rights Leader, Berta Cáceres, Is Murdered". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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