Natural Resources Quotes - Page 6

• For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.

  David Jeremiah Barron

  Jobs, People, Succeed

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• What we're also looking at, if we do not transform our energy system, is more international war and conflict as countries fight over limited natural resources, including water and land to grow their crops.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, War, Fighting

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• Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States and the rest of the world. But these people ignore one very important thing: The Russian people will never agree to this scenario. Russia is ultimately a self-sufficient country.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Powerful, Mean, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Don't worry, as long as America still has natural resources, you guys are okay.

  Jon Stewart

  America, Long, Worry

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• I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources which do not generate the heat that is currently provided by fossil fuels. I concur that climate change is beginning to [have an] effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, People, Climate

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• Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

  Steven Solomon

  Men, Water, Scarcity

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• Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Long, Vision

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• In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

  Pope Francis

  Selfish, Exclusion, Prosperity

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.22, Orbis Books

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• Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

  Evo Morales

  Hands, Majority, Use

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.

  Evo Morales

  Fighting, Oil, Giving

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Europe, Gold

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Sea, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Temptation, Might

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• Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.

  Jean Ziegler

  Country, Switzerland, Income

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

  John Moody

  California, People, Development

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

  Tucker Carlson

  Taken, People, Canada

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Europe, Together We Can, Space

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Garden, Horror Stories, Land

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• Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.

  Dennis Prager

  Moving, Weather, California

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• The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".

  Emo Philips

  Children, Night, President

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• Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.

  Edward Steichen

  World, Today, Natural

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• My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been interested in humans as well as primates. We are all kind of have the same emotions, the same goals and lives really. But to me, when I first got to Madagascar I realized that the lemurs lives are very closely related to what the humans are doing; partially because they've got both looking for natural resources. And if we can make some way that both humans and lemurs can live together peaceably and happily, that would be my goal for Madagascar.

  Patricia Wright

  Jobs, Goal, Together

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• Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Russia, Too Much, Way

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• Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Russia, Iron, Long

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