Natural Resources Quotes - Page 9

• We don't have a long of natural resources as a country; we have a very beautiful country. Visually, I mean, everyone goes on about it's green, it's the mountains and the rivers and it's clean and it's not that populated. It is stunningly beautiful, but we've no oil. We've no coal. We've no money. We just have Ireland.

  Gavin Friday

  Beautiful, Country, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.

  Tariq Ali

  Oil, Principles, United States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

  Louis Bacon

  Honor, Generations, Wonderful

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• Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.

  Immortal Technique

  Police, Suffering, Behaviour

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

  Mark Getty

  Moving, Men, Years

  "Blood and Oil". The Economist, March 4, 2000.

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• Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Running, Country, Technology

  Interview with Roger Mudd, October 12, 1979.

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• When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Unique, Hustle, Louisiana

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• The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Rights, Pieces, Natural

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• No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

  Margaret Sanger

  Death, Science, Privilege

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ecosystems, Together, Three

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  War, Loss, Hands

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• The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.

  Charles R. Morris

  Games, Names, Important

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.

  Charles R. Morris

  Years, Iron, Oil

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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