Environmental Quotes

 

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful      committed citizens can change the world; indeed            it’s the only thing that ever has.|Margaret Mead

The environment is everything that isn’t me.|Albert Einstein

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.|Chief Seattle

Sooner or later          we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights        too     to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth         but the planet can live without humans.|Evo Morales

We may achieve climate     but weather is thrust upon us.|O. Henry

The only way forward         if we are going to improve the quality of the environment       is to get everybody involved.|Richard Rogers

Climate change is a terrible problem         and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.|Bill Gates

We don’t have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.|Dennis Weaver

Plans to protect air and water         wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.|Stewart Udall

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.|Kurt Vonnegut

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers          but borrowed from his children.|Unknown

If all mankind were to disappear   the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish           the environment would collapse into chaos.|E. O. Wilson

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

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.|Sidney Sheldon

They claim this mother of ours      the Earth       for their own use     and fence their neighbors away from her         and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.|Sitting Bull

Every drop in the ocean counts.|Yoko Ono

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.|Barry Commoner

Sadly  it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.|James Lovelock

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.|Will Durant

All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.|Paul Hawken

We live in a world bathed in 5        000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year            in the form of solar energy. It’s just not in usable form yet.|Peter Diamandis

If you cut down a forest      it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.|Susan George

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil      and there a plant may take it up again in time sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.|Jacob Bronowski

Unless we keep this planet healthy everything else is for naught.|Victoria Principal

Mother Nature comes up against reality   and the reality is that the system doesn’t work.|John Garamendi

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves.|Robert Collier

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.|G. Gordon Liddy

I really believe in the environmental movement right now – it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.|Brooke Burke

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble  we know we’ll soon be in trouble.|Roger Tory Peterson

I think the environment should be put in the Environmental of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?|Robert Redford

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.|Gale Norton

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.|Peter Benchley

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation     and more dangerous as a planet    the better off we’ll be.|Lindsey Graham

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape            a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time         but not a lot  to turn things around.|Sylvia Earle

You may be able to fool the voters            but not the atmosphere.|Donella Meadows

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature          all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.|Kiefer Sutherland

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.|Christopher Dodd

I think the future for solar energy is bright.|Ken Salazar

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.|Annie Dillard

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation           we shall find manifest examples of premeditation         perseverance resolution     and consumate artifice       in order to effect their purpose.|William Bartram

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.|Cathy McMorris Rodgers

When we try to pick out anything by itself          we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.|John Muir

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline so if that’s the case  it’s cheaper   it’s cleaner and it’s a domestic resource.|T. Boone Pickens

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path      your life        your travels that awaken you.|Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.|E. O. Wilson

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.|Garrett Hardin

If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff      there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness          more compassion    more joy       more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.|Ellen DeGeneres

I’m anti-tax    but I’m pro-carbon tax.|Elon Musk

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.|Norm Dicks

After all         sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation     amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words           keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.|Maurice Strong

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.|Al Gore

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy         we go out and wreck something with it.|David R. Brower

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap    people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.|Paul Krugman

There are plenty of problems in the world            and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But it’s low on my list.|P. J. O’Rourke

We are using resources as if we had two planets not one. There can be no ‘plan B’ because there is no ‘planet B.’|Ban Ki-moon

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature           she’s been doing that for free         for a long    long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?|Thomas Friedman

Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless           the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is ‘poisoning our children’ by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.|Bob Beauprez

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time          he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.|Henry David Thoreau

In today’s world        it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate – and even thrive – in an environmentally-friendly manner.|Olympia Snowe

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment    it will be done!|Dennis Weaver

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth’s best interests and our citizen’s pressing needs.|Jim Clyburn

Population     when unchecked     goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.|Thomas Malthus

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America      but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.|James Lovelock

Yet      despite our many advances our environment is still threatened by a range of problems      including global climate change    energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels           and loss of biodiversity.|Dan Lipinski

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.|Aldo Leopold

I don’t think we’re going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we’ve got to translate that into what’s in it for us.|Jim Fowler

Every time I have some moment on a seashore   or in the mountains or sometimes in a quiet forest            I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.|Bill Bradley

Take air quality in the United States today: It’s about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago    even though there are now more people driving more cars.|Jared Diamond

I see humanity now as one vast plant        needing for its highest fulfillment only love       the natural blessings of the great outdoors       and intelligent crossing and selection.|Luther Burbank

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind      they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God      they are called developers.|Joseph Wood Krutch

As you heat the planet up    it’s just like boiling a pot.|Elon Musk

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?|Gale Norton

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education medicine and law; in journalism     literature and art.|Barry Commoner

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.|T. Boone Pickens

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world’s nations toward saving the climate.|Donella Meadows

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.|Lee R. Raymond

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear rather than science.|Jim Inhofe

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places in fact            are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically          the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.|Freeman Dyson

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.|Paul Tsongas

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life.|Roger Tory Peterson

I’m very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We’ve got to be careful and make sure we don’t foul our own nest.|John Lithgow

When all the world appears to be in a tumult       and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change            the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes     fall gives us a premonition of winter            but then         winter            will be forced to relent       once again    to the new beginnings of soft greens     longer light   and the sweet air of spring.|Madeleine M. Kunin

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital – the resource systems upon which we depend to live – instead of our human capital.|Paul Hawken

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.|John Doerr

For me            going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I’m doing the right thing by the animals.|Alexandra Paul

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public and the new is always alarming.|Garrett Hardin

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.|Ted Turner

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.|Marsha Blackburn

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!|David R. Brower

In the environmental movement    every time you lose a battle it’s for good but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.|David Suzuki

It’s not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water      sand   and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren’t the worst problem with fracking.|David Suzuki

If we don’t continue to pursue alternative emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.|Judy Biggert

‘Being green’ is commendable        but I hope that people don’t take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is     conservation alone will do little to save our planet.|Naveen Jain

In fact because of their connection to the land    farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.|Ike Skelton

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

I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible    one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.|Joe Barton

In places where this beauty has already disappeared      we will reconstruct it.|Fritz Todt

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security      we must become more energy secure.|Dan Lipinski

In addition to contributing to erosion        pollution       food poisoning         and the dead zone    corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel – it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.|Michael Pollan

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.|Craig Venter

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.|Dixie Lee Ray

Under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program   homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.|Melissa Bean

You don’t have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.|Shalom Harlow

We can have technology     prosperity     nice homes and cars            but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water           the air and our food.|Kevin Richardson

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.|Alexandra Paul

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints            resulting from our use of fossil fuels        are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.|John Coleman

We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient  and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.|Paul Hawken

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

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

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing       some days      literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.|Joe Biden

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.|Arnold Schwarzenegger

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.|Indira Gandhi

It is neither feasible or advisable for us to reshore all supply chains; partnerships with our allies that promote more stable access to key inputs while improving environmental sustainability and workers’ rights is essential.|Brian Deese

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization for example  has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality    not to mention serious environmental damage.|Klaus Schwab

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

But reducing harmful emissions    abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health          they improve personal health         enhance national security and encourage our nation’s economic viability.|Jim Clyburn

I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we’re going to get there. We have to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives.|Tim Ryan

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.|Christopher Alexander

Nature’s patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It’s nature’s version of nature versus nurture.|Brian Greene

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem then you wind up doing more harm than good.|Hugh Ross

AI can help solve some of the most difficult social and environmental challenges in areas like healthcare            disaster prediction  environmental conservation          agriculture    or cultural preservation.|Jeff Dean

We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part.|Paul Polman

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.|Ed Begley            Jr.

Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition create jobs    and lifts the economy.|Chai Jing

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don’t tend to support big agencies.|Anita Roddick

Somewhere down the line I’d like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection      sustainability           the effects of pollution       and all of those things related to protecting nature.|Xander Schauffele

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming       our ice caps melting           our glaciers receding          our coral is dying    our soils are eroding           our water tables falling our fisheries are being depleted    our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very    very wrong with our eco-system.|Richard Lamm

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.|Galen Rowell

The environmental crisis is a global problem      and only global action will resolve it.|Barry Commoner

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house   so the Olympic kit is no exception. It is incredibly environmental in the way that it is manufactured. For example         there’s no leather; it’s free from PVC. There’s lots of woven materials           which means a lot less waste.|Stella McCartney

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation            but people need to be informed before they can get involved.|Ma Jun

Let’s stand together  stick together           and work together for justice of every description. Racial justice. Gender justice. Immigrant justice. Economic justice. Environmental justice.|Lori Lightfoot

Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.|Jonathan Franklin

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.|Bernie Sanders

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg   whether the iceberg be nuclear           environmental or terrorism-related.|Marianne Williamson

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it’s a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally  our society as currently designed has no future. We’re chewing up the planet so fast        in so many different ways            that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.|Alex Steffen

Harmful Algal Blooms are a serious environmental and economic threat to New Jersey.|Mikie Sherrill

It’s amazing how one introductory course in environmental science can turn a 20-year-old into an Biofuels expert.|Sean Evans

There has been a banking crisis     a financial crisis      an economic crisis  a social crisis           a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That’s considerable in a country that’s used to being protected.|Jean-Francois Cope

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation’s leaders and citizens.|Stewart Udall

I’d like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies      robots – I don’t know – I’d probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive   but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?|Ben Peek

If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups          we can get our timber mills up and running        reduce the risk of wildfires        and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air.|Matt Rosendale

There is a need to spread more awareness about environmental issues.|Vivek

Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution       the Constitution that gave us desegregation   that gave us women’s rights           that gave us environmental protections and political access.|Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.|Samuel Wilson

And secondly I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.|Ed Rendell

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don’t know where your next meal is coming from    it’s hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.|Bjorn Lomborg

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it’s a kind of an environmental thing.|Sophie Turner

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity   that doesn’t mean it’s your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.|David Agus

I don’t use any animal products     both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.|Greta Thunburg

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps    you can do your part           and together we can do it.|Clay Shirky

The Safe Drinking Water Act         the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts    the Clean Air Act            the Superfund Law – the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don’t have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don’t have to play by the same rules as anybody else.|Josh Fox

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation       and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.|John Delaney

By the 1980s businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly       they balked. Reflexively  the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day           erstwhile snow job  became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.|Charles C. Mann

I think the Greens are posing some of the most important questions of our time       for example how we live sustainably on a planet of finite resources and a rising population     and how do we do that in a way that doesn’t exceed environmental limits and which is fair.|Caroline Lucas

With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse   we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.|Philippe Cousteau Jr.

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism      and you’re a citizen automatically under suspicion.|Alexander Cockburn

Like many environmental documentaries ‘Planet of Humans’ endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy.|Michael Shellenberger

There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health – genetic conditions viral threats   diseases like cancer and Parkinson’s. And then there are societal and global ones    like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats – everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.|Bill Maris

Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts        regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.|George Monbiot

Environmental justice         for those of you who may not be familiar with the term            goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.|Majora Carter

I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.|Jeremy Grantham

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.|Niki de St. Phalle

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites            but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.|Alan Dundes

Ecosystems are holy. The word “environmental” is a deadly compromise itself. It’s a policy word that lives only in the head           and barely there.|David James Duncan

All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently find ways to get our costs more in line and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.|N. Murray Edwards

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004… I said ‘no            ‘ it’s still OK   and I can still get there       and I did.|Ben Saunders

Environmental injustice is a tangible        intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race ethnicity        and class of those being impacted.|Bernice King

Like the other great revolutions     an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It    too     will change the face of the land and human institutions hierarchies   self-definitions     cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee    of course.|Donella Meadows

When my father finished his Ph.D.            my mother went back for another bachelor’s degree     this time in environmental science.|Celeste Ng

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come         and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of… environmental disasters that might be there.|Aleqa Hammond

All living beings       not just animals       but plants and microorganisms     perceive. To survive            an organic being must perceive – it must seek    or at least recognize food and avoid environmental danger.|Lynn Margulis

I don’t want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki    because I am not. I’m really different. I have different issues. I’m more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.|Severn Cullis-Suzuki

If every country’s climate policy was driven purely by environmental science          we may have no need for international agreements.|Ali Bongo Ondimba

The root cause of the looming energy problem – and the key to easing environmental         economic and religious tensions while improving public health – is to address the unending    and unequal growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.|Lawrence M. Krauss

From year to year     environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives            but from evolutionary or geological perspectives          what is happening is explosive change.|David Suzuki

Computer programmers      biotechnologists      environmental scientists    neuroscientists         nanotech engineers – all of these fields     and more       should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.|Jamais Cascio

Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First           sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then           if excess heat is generated during the next month or two    accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.|Charles Platt

I don’t own designer clothes           or a sports car          or a huge house       but I am seeing the world            experiencing amazing things         and I have become an environmental campaigner.|Roz Savage

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.|Scott Pruitt

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally           women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.|Carolyn Kizer

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and political system.|Jacque Fresco

The most meaningful engine of change    powerful enough to confront corporate power   may be not so much environmental quality      as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.|Barry Commoner

I’m not afraid to spend money on the R&D that’s really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.|Lisa Murkowski

Incredibly      oil and gas companies don’t have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them          while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.|Chellie Pingree

Environmental pollution     terrorism       and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or    but both/and.|Klaus Schwab

Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.|Rashida Tlaib

The planet’s biggest problems have to do with sustainability    environmental decline        global poverty          disease          conflict and so forth. Really          they’re all interconnected – it’s one big problem         which is that the way we’re doing things can’t go on.|Alex Steffen

The ‘environmental left’ tells us that          though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal     and though we can feed the world we should keep those things in the ground          put up fences and be about prohibition.|Scott Pruitt

The TPP will be good for the American economy          the Vietnamese economy   and the labor and environmental standards that make life better for our people.|Ben Rhodes

Music feels so environmental to me          especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It’s a landscape of the mind.|Caroline Polachek

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world’s economic            political        and environmental problems.|Winnie Byanyima

What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education          socioeconomic status         genetics            and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn’t give you a full picture of the tree           but it does tell you that a tree is there.|Kyle Hill

We are called to care for those sickened by pollution    house those displaced by environmental calamities      and heal the spirits of those – especially our youth – who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.|Blase J. Cupich

I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue          which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies        voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit including the environment.|David Frum

I do think that if people are taking the time to think about their environmental footprint when it comes to how many flights they take        whether or not they have a 4X4    whether or not they are going to have a patio heater   then putting the question to themselves about how many kids they are going to have is a reasonable thing to do.|Caroline Lucas

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause for example  as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities       and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.|Stewart Udall

In the rich world       the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States            the most important environmental indicator       particulate air pollution      has been cut by more than half since 1955   rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved  and forests are increasing.|Bjorn Lomborg

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism       not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes        but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.|Radhanath Swami

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth  or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.|E. O. Wilson

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally       then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.|Peter Singer

The Indian government has been taking some lead in several environmental initiatives      like the international solar alliance many green initiatives in schools lots of river reservations projects.|Sonam Wangchuk

The planet’s environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos – and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.|Sheherazade Goldsmith

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation – to allow new economic      political and social dynamics to emerge.|Frances Beinecke

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.|Ed Rendell

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

I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics         learning a lot more and preserving what’s left of the world. That’s such a sacred circle to be in. I’d love to contribute to that.|SZA

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.|Charles Duhigg

Clinton understands that climate change is real   is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.|Bernie Sanders

While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they’re going out of style the United States under President Trump has led the world in reducing carbon emissions.|Michael J. Knowles

I don’t think it’s too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don’t wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you’re 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can’t be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.|Jello Biafra

We’ll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes    charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all        and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience            especially charity-minded Generation Y.|Amy Jo Martin

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk     but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.|Joel Fuhrman

Taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.|Boyan Slat

As a nation    we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society  one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations         and all those who work to protect America’s open land and waterways.|Louis Bacon

There’s so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean           social environmental         humanitarian – all of them. I know that when I’m eating that I’m not hurting the planet       I’m not hurting other people on this planet I’m not hurting animals… and I’m not hurting nature.|Maggie Q

When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat          I’d assumed  for no good reason  that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst         eating pigs would be a bit less bad           and eating chickens would be basically harmless.|Ben Dolnick

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

One of the things that I’ve always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.|Maurice Strong

Toxins love to get you while you’re young. Lead            mercury        secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature   vulnerable and growing than when it’s mature and comparatively fixed.|Jeffrey Kluger

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973     left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.|James D. Watson

I don’t know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.|Chen Guangbiao

I realised the animal agriculture industry is actually awful and tragic and I can’t bear to be a part of that. The environmental impact of the agriculture industry    the health impact on us       there’s all the reasons.|Montaigne

The Moon stabilizes Earth’s obliquity. Well        almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees – and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon  it might be much worse.|Seth Shostak

Although environmental groups sometimes raise issues in the confirmation process environmental protection is not central to the fear-mongering of the liberal interest groups that oppose conservative judges. But the threat to basic environmental protections from conservative jurisprudence is broad-based and severe.|Benjamin Wittes

Our schools   like so many parts of our infrastructure   are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central to our fight to achieve environmental        racial and economic justice.|Jamaal Bowman

It’s no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions       the dependence on fossil fuels            and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem    with the government able to step in as the solution.|Steven Crowder

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder – and ultimately impossible to solve – with ever more people.|David Attenborough

Our message to leaders from every continent was simple: California has succeeded on climate and clean energy because we’ve emphasized local   human values and built a coalition that includes community and environmental leaders  working families     and communities of color – as well as unions and progressive business.|Tom Steyer

I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient          and where businesses seek out efficient states in which to locate so they can reap the economic and environmental benefits for their businesses and employees.|Bernie Sanders

What I try to do on my Instagram is provoke discussion and share environmental and sustainability messages.|Aidan Gallagher

I have American in-laws     and I care about the environment. We don’t use disposable diapers    which of course       creates an environmental problem of our own.|Yakov Smirnoff

I don’t see this planet being… they’re talking about how they’re turning around the environmental problems here           but I think it’s already too late.|Ace Frehley

We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists       environmental specialists  historians and tourists.|Volodymyr Zelensky

GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It’s not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.|Zac Goldsmith

I’m not a politically-charged person. I don’t want to be. I don’t want to talk about politics and I don’t want to sing about politics  but if you’re talking about environmental issues then you can’t talk about one without the other.|Oliver Sykes

When people align around shared political          social economic or environmental values           and take collective action           thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.|Simon Mainwaring

Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs    in health        in economic growth and environmental solutions.|Oren Etzioni

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.|Ed Begley   Jr.

Fracking is doable if there’s full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly  science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third    there’s collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.|Bill Richardson

Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.|Michael Shellenberger

There’s every reason to think that whatever their political leanings     Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health       safety economic security   environmental quality and democratic self-government – at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice.|Cass Sunstein

I think we’d be crazy to do anything to the integrity of our policy package    which is progressive            and really dealing with the key social and environmental issues that we face. We’re not about to ditch our commitment to nuclear disarmament           for example  to somehow make ourselves more electable.|Caroline Lucas

China leads the world in energy consumption     carbon emissions     and the release of major air and water pollutants        and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.|Ma Jun

I’m fortunate to be in a position to support nonprofits that align with my personal priorities          which include women’s health issues        cancer research        environmental concerns     and education for women and children domestically and globally.|Channing Dungey

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source      hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions     an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.|Dan Lipinski

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits     pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.|Ed Begley            Jr.

As an issue    climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s            environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.|Charles C. Mann

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.|Bernie Sanders

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends   chronic poverty       economic inequality      environmental degradation pandemic diseases  organized crime       repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can’t address such concerns.|Ban Ki-moon

There is the GIS world that is largely managing Jack Dangermonditative data sources       supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads     making cities more livable through better planning       environmental management           forest management  drilling in the right location for oil           managing assets and utilities.|Jack Dangermond

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn’t even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.|Gaylord Nelson

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.|Tristram Stuart

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers  then no fracking should take place.|Barry Gardiner

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.|Howard Gardner

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact      the eruption of massive supervolcanoes  a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth         or by human-driven environmental collapse.|Ramez Naam

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming       proliferation of plastics       urban sprawl and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties        top-down regulations    and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.|Preston Manning

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.|Barry Commoner

I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers      what a wonderful place this would be.|Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else         preferably someone far away in space or time    whose protests can be safely ignored.|Roger Scruton

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.|Barry Commoner

As for testosterone   it’s gotten a bum rap. Yes   it has tons to do with aggression but it doesn’t cause aggression as much as sensitizes you to the environmental triggers of aggression.|Robert Sapolsky

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don’t go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.|Barry Commoner

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren’t really that important in the long term.|Ted Danson

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight – the fight for electoral justice.|Barbara Boxer

If Canadian companies want to sell products to the E.U.            they have to prove those products conform with E.U. product safety health and environmental rules. This involves extra bureaucracy            controls and paperwork. If the U.K. had a Canada-style deal with the E.U.   U.K. companies would have to do the same.|Gina Miller

Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world       but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner.|Anil Agarwal

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.|Barry Commoner

Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.|Adam Schiff

If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development         such as the internalization of costs and ‘polluters pay ‘ it would have long-term beneficial effects         both environmental and economic.|Andrew Nikiforuk

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry agriculture     energy and transportation – essential as they are make people sick and die.|Barry Commoner

Businesses can lead with their values and make money too. You don’t have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business be a caring business be a generous business and still do very well financially.|Jerry Greenfield

As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus         I’m committed to finding consensus on legislation to address our environmental and energy challenges.|Elise Stefanik

There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out.|Becky Albertalli

We recognise the link between environmental failure and social injustice. When the energy sector is privatised and deregulated  it not only tends to pollute more   it also charges the poorest more per unit!|Barry Gardiner

I believe that if today’s youth work together raising our collective voice        we can affect the positive environmental change that Planet Earth needs so desperately.|Aidan Gallagher

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people      the loving stewards         and the ecology of a place what I call the environmental umbilical that we’re nurturing here.|Joel Salatin

By adopting the control strategy    the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.|Barry Commoner

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.|Barry Commoner

MPs should be able to debate         amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start based on an independent impact assessment of what social     economic and environmental risks might be expected.|Barry Gardiner

In every case the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists          who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.|Barry Commoner

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon       technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt      environmental crisis           every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.|Muhammad Yunus

We have never believed that any potential future benefits from fracking make it acceptable for the government to bulldoze over the concerns of local communities or the very real environmental dangers that can occur as a result of weak safeguards controlling the technical process.|Barry Gardiner

The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges        from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.|Paul Polman

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years        they were all closed for economic reasons           mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.|Peter DeFazio

If we’re going to pass international trade agreements     as we should they should have similar kind of rules   not as high a wage as obviously as a steelworker in the U.S. or in Lorain     Ohio  but certainly rules on the environment and worker safety. You go to Mexico       you don’t see those kinds of worker protections or environmental safeguards.|Sherrod Brown

It’s absolutely shameful that Rep. Grijalva would try to use tribes as political pawns to implement the misguided agenda of extremist environmental groups.|Paul Gosar

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax airlines            and we don’t subsidize       we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.|Joe Biden

I have a huge fan following in Bellary      and when they met me        they told me about their problems. I have seen mining done without proper safety measures and not taking environmental protection into account.|Pawan Kalyan

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth    yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.|George Monbiot

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.|Maurice Strong

On the environmental front there’s concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide            and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.|Clive Anderson

I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they’ve been counted out before they’ve had a chance to prove themselves. They’ve inherited a lot of debt – not just student debt but environmental debt  political debt. They really feel squeezed.|G. Willow Wilson

Our district is home to the Adirondacks   and we know firsthand that clean energy development and environmental protection are critical to our economy.|Elise Stefanik

For businesses          biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline – biology – to the design table. It’s not to write an environmental impact statement  as most biologists in business do right now.|Janine Benyus

I’ve been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children’s charities over the years.|Martina Navratilova

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.|Robert Kennedy            Jr.

Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.|Sheldon Whitehouse

It’s Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk      but one with great geo-political skills.|Douglas Brinkley

What is true environmentalism? I think it’s environmental stewardship – not prohibition.|Scott Pruitt

The language ‘It’s too late’ is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It’s too late for the dodo and for people who’ve starved to death already   but it’s not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment     the better.|Jeremy Grantham

I thought I was gonna be an attorney        so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy   and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.|Aisha Tyler

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.|Mackenzie Crook

No one does a better cleaner          or environmental friendlier than the United States         when it comes to drilling for oil       gas     coal    oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.|David Pratt

For the U.S.   I think we should have a carbon tax         for environmental reasons.|Tyler Cowen

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn’t pose a serious environmental issue.|John Hickenlooper

Clothing shouldn’t be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It’s environmental armor.|Rain Dove

There is this notion that is quite popular in the environmental scene that every little bit helps        or ‘Think global act local.’ I disagree with that. I think you have to start with how big the solution needs to be to solve the problem and then reason backward from there.|Boyan Slat

In Congress   I have defended solar energy to safeguard the economic and environmental future of Nevada           and I will continue to do so.|Jacky Rosen

With my biology degree      I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff          we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It’s a job I’ll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.|Dustin Lynch

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels     primarily oil.|Dennis Weaver

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.|Abhijit Banerjee

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth’s resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this            government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.|Paul Polman

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth      environmental protection   improvements in our educational system.|Al Gore

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they’re seldom enforced.|Robert Kennedy         Jr.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.|Khalid A. Al-Falih

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned        and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.|Gaylord Nelson

Environmental protection doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You can’t separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.|Jim Clyburn

The environmental movement       like all political processes reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow       very gradual disasters in the making.|Ted Danson

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon who would be something of a dangerous radical in today’s political scene.|Noam Chomsky

If we talk about the environment   for example  we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.|Danny Glover

As we do our work in D.C.  we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership      in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.|Scott Pruitt

I’ve won some awards. ‘Time’ magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh    and I’ve got some honorary citizenships  like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn’t get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.|Paul Watson

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.|Sherwood Boehlert

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities because the risk is that if you don’t do that – and you want to lead the world – then you might end up getting unintended consequences.|John Key

I think there’s a green side to John Kerry  if you like     that he’s an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.|Douglas Brinkley

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering      manufacturing         construction materials            operations and maintenance.|Keith Ellison

Our work on light bulbs wasn’t an arbitrary mandate. We didn’t just pick a standard out of the air or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead    we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.|Fred Upton

The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.|Richard Quest

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.|Marshall McLuhan

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.|Pim Fortuyn

As the leader of an oil-producing nation  I know how hard it can be to prioritize environmental issues            but the short-term risk to our economic security is far outweighed by the potential risk to our national and regional security.|Ali Bongo Ondimba

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly       I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.|Jimmy Carter

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS)            which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station           doesn’t have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.|Rose George

To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe          and to avoid reversing the course of human progress        the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.|Johan Rockstrom

Moreover       the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.|Garrett Hardin

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense          not political agendas.|Mac Thornberry

If you look around the world          the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There’s a reason for that. If you’re worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head       your focus is on those things.|John S. Watson

The environmental movement doesn’t have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually     there will be open war.|Paul Watson

No day is alike – I do many other things   and I’m very active in the environmental movement.|Jostein Gaarder

Far from environmental prophet    he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.|Pierre Poilievre

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm.|Annie Leibovitz

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States   the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada’s Pacific Coast.|John Hoeven

I’ve always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I’m willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place    we’ll have to-in order to increase another place I’m willing to do that.|Judd Gregg

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history.|Jared Diamond

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn’t long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we’ve got in this country.|Jared Diamond

In the state of Wisconsin it’s mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade  through high school.|Gaylord Nelson

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.|Gaylord Nelson

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.|Sue Kelly

Despite Arizona’s remarkable growth in recent years     we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.|Jane D. Hull

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly          not only will you get better environmental outcomes       you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.|John Anderson

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.|John Anderson

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.|Jerry Costello

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies          we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.|Samuel Wilson

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.|Samuel Wilson

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.|Samuel Wilson

We all recognize that in recent decades    many important achievements have helped create a cleaner            healthier environment        yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.|Samuel Wilson

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles       where we as an environmental organization            the oil company       and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.|Ted Danson

We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane    because everybody attacks these problems as a group.|Ted Danson

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all         if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed          which seems like an extremely lively possibility     what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?|Bruce Sterling

I reflect back 35 years ago  and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water    and we have had some real successes.|Jay Inslee

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking   visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.|Jay Inslee

In this country          the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here     we didn’t have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.|Jeremy Rifkin

The position I took at the time was that we hadn’t really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.|Jeremy Rifkin

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.|Katherine Dunn

These days    most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.|Galen Rowell

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

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area          and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.|Thomas R. Cech

I wanted to help raise awareness    so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.|Kevin Richardson

More than ever before         there is a global understanding that long-term social     economic      and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families   communities and countries.|Gro Harlem Brundtland

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it’s not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It’s really just common sense.|Daryl Hannah

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.|Brian Mulroney

Furthermore  both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.|Robert Brady

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply     demand and competition for crude oil     taxes  regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.|Gary Miller

Like I said     I’m more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.|Hans Blix

So to hope to be able to have peace           to be able to have justice and environmental balance    are consequences of our behavior        not just our intentions.|Godfrey Reggio

Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.|Sherwood Boehlert

Well    for starters    we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.|Sherwood Boehlert

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing   but the rise of the so-called conservative  political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.|Paul Hawken

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions          even though in Finnish society      we are not facing the most urgent problems.|Harri Holkeri

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.|Joe Barton

Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river   there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.|Pat Buchanan

At every turn when humanity is asked the question       ‘Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss        which one do you prefer    ‘ we invariably choose the money.|Ethan Hawke

At Current     television is all we do – that’s our business. We don’t have amusement parks I have to worry about   we don’t have environmental cases against us    we don’t have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.|Keith Olbermann

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?|David Frum

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

Without international participation           jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few         if any environmental protections harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.|Fred Upton

There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat           dairy or eggs. Indeed          these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.|Gary L. Francione

Time after time we’re told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations   environmental protections and labor standards – giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines       choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.|Richard Trumka

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

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

But      as environment minister     I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry            because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.|Sigmar Gabriel

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.|William Hague

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

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

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource           and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science           environmental management           government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.|James Buchan

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars            trucks planes and ships in the world.|Joan Jett

Over and over           we hear politicians say they can’t spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.|David Suzuki

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company’s bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.|Daniel Goleman

During my travels in Iraq    Israel Gaza  Brazil Indonesia      Japan Europe and all over the United States  I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy        education and healthcare for all    renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.|Michael Franti

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections         cut taxes on the rich and stroke ‘fat cats’ until they purr with pleasure. I’m completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.|Vince Cable

A fascinating challenge facing today’s environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.|Matt Gonzalez

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands         for instance         or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though      larger dam removal projects have started   a number of them in Washington state.|Matt Gonzalez

I’d say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.|Corey Feldman

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations climate control        pollution       poverty and disease.|Simon Mainwaring

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.|Bonnie Wright

There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.|James Fallows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me            but it is not some wacko view.|James Fallows

I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues         including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.|Jeff Bingaman

Americans don’t pay much attention to environmental issues   because they aren’t sexy. I mean   cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work      but it doesn’t get anybody’s pulse racing.|Jeff Goodell

Mark Ruffalo aka the Incredible Hulk      is the natural gas industry’s worst nightmare: a serious committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.|Jeff Goodell

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?|Jeff Goodell

If there are more and more environmental refugees       they are going to end up on your doorstep too.|Nina Fedoroff

A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP     the Final Anthropic Principle        which deals with evolution in the far future.|Frank Tipler

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work          regardless of the industry we’re in.|Gale Anne Hurd

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

Business has a way of talking about how to create value           which is in some way isn’t bad… We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.|Peter Senge

What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards – they want a lot of things – but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy you want oil gas and coal.|John S. Watson

The NFL         sadly  has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.|Matt Taibbi

Businesses typically look at issues like price       quality           time of delivery. They don’t often think about social and environmental impact because they’re focused on their financial bottom line.|Jerry Greenfield

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then       start to think about not just your economic concerns  but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.|Jerry Greenfield

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.|Martin Heinrich

I’ve always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation Rob Machado Foundation           which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.|Rob Machado

Every global concern – economic  environmental or security-related – can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.|Henry Paulson

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.|William Clay Ford          Jr.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow      gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.|Josh Fox

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it’s used the stick too much; it’s used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn’t sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.|Edward Burtynsky

When you buy a jacket        you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly        we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we’ve measured          the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.|Brian Greene

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.|Gisele Bundchen

I’ve been a philanthropist for all my life   and… I’ve had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.|Julian Lennon

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces       too. It’s an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.|Antoine Predock

On the environment and climate change   I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity           too much fear of upsetting business. Basically   New Labour was very nervous about regulating business    or requiring it to do anything         even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.|Geoff Mulgan

For too much of history      we’ve viewed the world’s precious resources – both environmental and human – as things to extract to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.|Jacqueline Novogratz

With increasing fervor since the 1980s     sustainability has been the watchword of scientists       environmental activists       and indeed all those concerned about the complex        fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business     design            and our lifestyles.|Jamais Cascio

Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth   frankly          from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.|Jane Poynter

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.|Majora Carter

While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis          people – even those who profess great environmental consciousness – continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.|Daniel Pauly

I’m not a doctor or scientist. I’m just a mom. But I do think there’s a genetic predisposition           and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination   in my child’s case    is what resulted in autism.|Holly Robinson Peete

Wealth and vegetation go together and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.|Natalie Jeremijenko

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven such as hurricanes in Florida.|Natalie Jeremijenko

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn’t work.|Natalie Jeremijenko

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality – what a joke. In my district       we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities       and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.|Wendy Davis

I rarely fly     for environmental reasons more than anything else.|Marcus Brigstocke

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

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.|Judith Rodin

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

What’s it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin   all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive            but it’s not altogether pleasant.|Douglas Rushkoff

I’d been making music that was intended to be like painting     in the sense that it’s environmental            without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‘ambient music.’ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music      in that it changed the way that music changes.|Brian Eno

I always felt that if someone shot me        it would be great for the environmental movement       because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children     because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation    and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.|David Suzuki

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.|Mikhail Gorbachev

We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge        they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is    we only ever hear about the solutions from the media and for whatever reason     they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there’s no appetite for green     it’s not surprising.|Zac Goldsmith

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn’t theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.|Zac Goldsmith

By uploading 40 years of ‘Ecologist’ editions online      we will be creating the world’s most extensive ecological archive. ‘The Ecologist’ will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.|Zac Goldsmith

Politics colours everything and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early ’90s   I have always been involved in lobbying            campaigning and pushing for changes.|Zac Goldsmith

The environmental movement’s focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.|Matthew Yglesias

‘Green’ is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election – largely in response to George Bush’s suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.|Zac Goldsmith

The way to make the world a better place through your eating is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good        sometimes bad. But even when it’s good its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.|Tyler Cowen

It is a world of extremes      which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion    whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush’s environmental policy   for example  is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.|Noreena Hertz

Transparency accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.|Noreena Hertz

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.|Robin McLeavy

Vegetarians have been around for a very long time – Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2            500 years ago – but even as the environmental evidence mounted       they didn’t appear to be winning the argument.|Tristram Stuart

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority         but not much use as a campaign tool.|Tristram Stuart

The manufacture and running of all the world’s computers       the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its Tristram Stuarts.|Tristram Stuart

Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective    some meat – such as conscientiously hunted animals – involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture    while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.|Tristram Stuart

Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices  they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global brands.|Nirmalya Kumar

The responses that environmentalists evoke – fear          anxiety          numbness     despair – are not helpful           even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating          even enthralling       to be in the milieu of environmental change.|Paul Hawken

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.|John Holdren

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.|Jane Velez-Mitchell

Wouldn’t it help Americans more  in the long run         if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?|Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every decision we make – when we choose a vehicle    when we pump gas into that vehicle        when we order food – is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It’s an environmental and moral choice.|Jane Velez-Mitchell

Usually          environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.|Paul Watson

It’s worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.|Anne Wojcicki

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013 there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.|Thomas R. Insel

Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint      but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal fuel oil          others.|Rex Tillerson

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.|Chris Stewart

It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.|Rebecca MacKinnon

Over the past several decades        a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.|Rebecca MacKinnon

Without global human rights          labor and environmental movements       companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.|Rebecca MacKinnon

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.|Jose Andres

Fundamentally          if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from          it’s all because of humans and our impact on the environment so while it’s true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment it is a necessary thing.|David Filo

In the end       I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards if we have benefits in taxes           royalties        jobs    we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.|Victor Ponta

The genetics of autism are real       but there are also environmental triggers.|Elizabeth Emken

You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.|Robert Hass

I would say Gary Snyder     who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker            will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.|Robert Hass

I don’t know if acting is genetic. Maybe it’s environmental.|Freddie Prinze   Jr.

You always bump into politics in life       and as a man I’m party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost as a man        as a father.|Pierce Brosnan

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to ‘think globally and act locally.’|Mike Love

If you look at the history of other movements     whether Civil Rights or environmental rights     these are all decades-long undertakings.|Mitch Kapor

I have voted against only one of President Obama’s nominees: Michael Froman      a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation     workers’ rights         and environmental protections.|Elizabeth Warren

Smog is affecting larger parts of China     and environmental pollution has become a major problem            which is nature’s red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.|Li Keqiang

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people raises quality and efficiency of development and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.|Li Keqiang

There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They’re going green primarily because it makes good financial sense   but the fact that it benefits their families’ health and the environment also makes them feel good.|Lynn Jurich

I’ve always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don’t think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.|John Mackey

On almost every environmental issue I care about          in fact            I’ve been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal     that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations         that oil reserves were effectively unlimited        and more.|Ramez Naam

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.|Ramez Naam

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.|Joel Salatin

I think future engineered species could be the source of food   hopefully a source of energy         environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.|Craig Venter

In May 2007 congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.|Nina Easton

When I visited the Water Institute’s Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River          I couldn’t find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.|Nina Easton

I call upon governments to start supporting companies to use more sustainable materials in their products instead of continuing with antiquated incentives        such as import duties on synthetic materials that are in principle much higher compared with those placed on leather goods regardless of the environmental footprint.|Jochen Zeitz

Let’s recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and       rather than for the museum give the money to environmental causes.|Jochen Zeitz

In terms of environmental impact  Samasource jobs are very green. Our product is human intelligence            and it’s transported through the Internet rather than via carbon-intensive trucking   shipping            and warehousing.|Leila Janah

What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus     for a government charged with delivering public goods          an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways    national defense and security        environmental protection   and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.|Eric Maskin

To avoid congestion I get up at 5:10         grab a slice of raisin toast  and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband  Tim Dunn     who works for an environmental agency is still asleep when I slip out            and I find that rather annoying.|Ellen Stofan

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch          we’re all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we’d just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people – which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.|Annalee Newitz

In ‘Sidney’s Comet    ‘ thanks to all the consumerism      all the garbage had to be put in deep space            even though we’re not supposed to litter the cosmos – that was an environmental message. Although it was funny         it had an important message.|Brian Herbert

Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game           it’s going to be very very hard.|Renee James

Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.|Bruce Beutler

The majority of autists – as well as their parents – seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.|Nikolaas Tinbergen

EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.|Philippe Cousteau Jr.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people   and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.|Philippe Cousteau           Jr.

I have spent many years working in education and media         from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit  EarthEcho International.|Philippe Cousteau       Jr.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef we will all lose in the long run.|Philippe Cousteau        Jr.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I’m passionate about. CNN’s ‘Going Green’ series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.|Philippe Cousteau     Jr.

Truly  we do live on a ‘water planet.’ For us       water is that critical issue that we need. It’s the most precious substance on the planet   and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue         including climate change    that we’re facing.|Philippe Cousteau        Jr.

What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers’ rights            give up environmental protection give up a whole load of things that are very important.|Jeremy Corbyn

We copied laws and regulations from western countries           but enforcement remains weak     and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.|Ma Jun

Brands who come to China often they just care about price – so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.|Ma Jun

China has leapfrogged into this information age and Web users have grown very significantly    which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.|Ma Jun

In America    you complain about job losses because of China           but here         we carry all of the environmental costs.|Ma Jun

When I look at China’s environmental problems the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It’s lack of motivation.|Ma Jun

The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement       but enforcement is weak    and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there’s an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.|Ma Jun

Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can’t happen here.|Ma Jun

On April 16   2010   34 Chinese environmental organizations including Friends of Nature           the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs     and Green Beagle    questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.|Ma Jun

If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality      local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.|Ma Jun

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups          while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.|Ma Jun

China’s environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan  and citizens concerned about the environment           to join in.|Ma Jun

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials       and they are not open to environmental litigation.|Ma Jun

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law           closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.|Ma Jun

Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.|Ma Jun

China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.|Ma Jun

Urban residents        most of them middle class have a much better sense of their environmental rights            and they’re willing to take to the streets.|Ma Jun

Our nation has abundant clean energy resources and tapping them will generate jobs         make the air safer to breathe   and tackle climate change – the greatest environmental crisis of our time.|Frances Beinecke

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian            economic      health and justice issue as well.|Frances Beinecke

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge       and we aren’t yet doing enough about it.|Frances Beinecke

When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project  it must make sure the project’s impacts        environmental and otherwise        are considered. In many cases   NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project’s impact on their community.|Frances Beinecke

When we go to the store      we bring home more than food – we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.|Frances Beinecke

I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.|Marshall Curry

I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism but I didn’t know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say          but I make them because there’s something I want to explore.|Marshall Curry

As a group     we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.|Jamshyd Godrej

We’ve sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut     Delaware      Maryland      and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution.|Eric Schneiderman

For me            adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society coming to know the environmental conditions that shape people’s lives and viewing the present in the context of history.|Tim Cope

I believe that it is impossible to stop people from using the fossil fuels          so we need to develop technologies which allow us to use them without creating environmental havoc on the planet.|Klaus Lackner

Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact           I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.|Klaus Lackner

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.|Sara Gilbert

There’s a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it’s a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.|Tom Perez

There’s a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that’s going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don’t are headed for a wipeout.|William Clay Ford      Jr.

You name it – it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency           and every group I talk to is the same message: ‘Please stop them. Please stop.’|Stephen Fincher

Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development production    and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.|Ted Deutch

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.|Ander Crenshaw

We must not risk defunding environmental conservation programs    which is why Congress should reSuzan DelBeneize the Land and Water Conservation Fund to preserve our natural resources.|Suzan DelBene

Strong enforceable environmental protections will not only help protect our planet for future generations    it will also level the playing field for small-and-medium-sized U.S. businesses by raising environmental standards.|Suzan DelBene

As I have said all along       for any trade promotion Suzan DelBeneity bill to gain my support    it must require strong  enforceable environmental and labor protections.|Suzan DelBene

The Keystone pipeline is one of those things that’s sort of a political driver. And mostly    the Republicans use it to sort of embarrass the president and embarrass quite a few Democrats who feel that there’s a potential for an environmental disaster.|Rodney Frelinghuysen

All too often  the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet  this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.|Chris Gibson

There’s a value in used electronic equipment      and currently           there are small         domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few         if any environmental and safety standards.|Gene Green

What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say         ‘How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?’|Leslie Odom        Jr.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore           we      of all people on this planet should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.|Hugh Ross

Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we’re eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It’s as important as the kind of car you drive – whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.|Michael Pollan

Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money it would reduce the environmental damages in the future        it would solve so many problems and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.|Robert F. Engle

There’s a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation    and it tells you how to catch them         how to clean them.|Edith Widder

It should be noted that the EPA’s banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.|Robert Zubrin

From 1859 to 1971  the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously          in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter         as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill.|Robert Zubrin

It is not rational        never mind ‘appropriate     ‘ to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.|Antonin Scalia

I don’t think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it’s going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together          that allows for better communication      that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we’re currently doing in the real world.|Palmer Luckey

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.|Issey Miyake

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.|Sam Brownback

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth           but many of them are elitists.|Norman Borlaug

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math         a lazy press   and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.|Rex Tillerson

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.|Walter Cronkite

I don’t know of a single park without serious environmental problems.|Michael Frome

With the mining sites           I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape       in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.|David Maisel

I write a lot of environmental stories.|Peter Heller

A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories – I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.|Peter Heller

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic          environmental         and resource challenges we face as an interconnected  global society.|Naveen Jain

I started traveling out of curiosity but I have come to believe in travel’s political importance       that encouraging a nation’s citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance  environmental conservation           or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.|Andrew Solomon

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.|Ramez Naam

I’ve had filmmakers I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to ‘E.T.’ help with an environmental message – I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean           the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause.|Kathleen Kennedy

I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business  and death is an expected part of the game    but I’ve also heard of the way that safety violations      human and environmental laws  and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money.|Alexandra Fuller

That’s the big mistake the environmental movement made – ‘We’ll scare the hell out of you           and you’ll become an activist’.|Naomi Klein

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons – whether by testing          mistake or malice – is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.|Valerie Plame

Here on Earth            we’ve found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles suggests that life could potentially take hold on worlds other than our own.|Nick Sagan

I want to work on environmental issues.|Jimmy Gomez

As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration          civil rights    and environmental protections    I felt fear for my young children  and guilt        too – as if I’d somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.|Laura Moser

Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What’s more   environmental regulators should abide by the law.|Luther Strange

Every day      the hard-working men and women of Alabama’s Department of Environmental Management are on the ground      protecting Alabama’s rivers and lakes in a way that is beneficial to all. EPA should support them in that work           not make it more difficult.|Luther Strange

We don’t want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we’re going to do our healthcare.|John Hickenlooper

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice    we’ve also got to focus on many          many people – for them      life starts with a good job.|John Hickenlooper

I’m into environmental and ecological issues      so maybe that is an avenue to go down.|Daniel Bryan

Without question      I’m not a fan of the EPA. The EPA has overstepped their boundaries each and every day. They get into areas they shouldn’t be involved in… the states have the right to regulate themselves if they have the ability to do so – and we do because we have the Department of Environmental Quality.|Markwayne Mullin

At every juncture as Oklahoma’s attorney general          Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards – not to defend them.|Amber Valletta

The government employs scientists of many varieties in technical capacities from estimating the environmental toxicity of a chemical to the structural soundness of a bridge. But when it comes to forming policies       these scientists and especially     behavioral scientists are rarely at the table with the lawyers and the economists.|Richard Thaler

We’re still expecting capitalism to solve problems: ‘Maybe if we sell enough oil      we can give some profits to an environmental agency!’ Capitalism isn’t a moral system.|Anohni

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.|Timothy Morton

My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The ‘Cultures of Energy Podcast’ is so good!|Timothy Morton

We don’t think it is fair for these environmental groups to be beating up Belize over this little dam when their own countries have so many of them. Now they are trying to tell us we can’t have one.|Said Musa

When you run a company   you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way            just as we shouldn’t leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs          we shouldn’t leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.|Henry Paulson

I’ve long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can’t build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis         and you can’t do that if you don’t have a healthy environment.|Henry Paulson

If the U.S. fails to set the rules for global trade   then other countries with records of environmental and labor abuses       like China     will step in to fill the void.|Mike Quigley

While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy           behind-closed doors           we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to ‘fast track’ these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.|Jan Schakowsky

I urge President Trump to maintain American participation in the Paris Agreement – for the sake of our international leadership       economic competitiveness and children’s environmental future.|Brad Schneider

For TPP to get my vote       it must benefit America’s middle class     raise wages   and safeguard the consumer and environmental protections that we rely upon.|Dan Lipinski

If the scale of gas is anything like the claims made by its advocates   it has major implications for the economy and British society. Besides its worrying environmental aspects     it could have adverse effects on income distribution.|Guy Standing

There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social         environmental            and economic conditions.|Peter Maurer

Land is a great example of how we can manage and invest in sustainable infrastructure for economic            social and environmental gains. Its use – and misuse – is at the heart of the challenge for food            fuel    and fibre.|Paul Polman

Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.|Isabelle Kocher

While the transition from a combustion-powered society to electrification is already underway due to market forces alone  this transition will take generations without support. But we have every incentive – environmental        economic      and yes          moral – to speed the evolution.|Joe Kaeser

Stark inequality        poverty         and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and     consequently social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.|Sharan Burrow

There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can ‘afford to save the environment.’ This ‘Kuznets Curve’ thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.|Johan Rockstrom

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.|Johan Rockstrom

I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I’d be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.|Mark Parker

As governor  I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement the plan’s recommendations.|Katie McGinty

The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment   generated jobs          and gave a boost to local economies        all when helping to protect the environment.|Katie McGinty

From a planning perspective          economic degradation begets environmental degradation        which begets social degradation.|Majora Carter

All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business            or a rogue individual          can do. Insider trading        environmental damage       human-rights violations       and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact.|Punit Renjen

Many times   I left the prison thinking     ‘I’m smart. I can make it. I won’t get caught up again.’ But you get off downtown Skid Row    and you’re a target for all of the environmental harms in that area. The pain and trauma in that area is so thick         you can almost reach your hand out and touch it.|Susan Burton

We know that the environment and political information is important and we expose and teach the women about some of the environmental factors that lead to their incarceration.|Susan Burton

Trans issues are also environmental issues. They’re also healthcare issues. They’re also national security issues.|Sarah McBride

The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters        even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects    and the state regulators are even worse.|Suzy Shuster

As an environmental scientist        I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life       and it always will.|Hope Jahren

Because glass is at once structural and transparent         it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.|Neri Oxman

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.|Mark Kurlansky

I do wonder if it’s my responsibility to spread a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just      like    don’t be racist or whatever but I don’t want to be the person who’s like            ‘Everyone be vegan forever!’|Zazie Beetz

As congressional Republicans and the Trump administration continue to attack the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)    it came as no surprise that the House voted on two bills that would weaken emissions standards and      as a result     put our public health at risk.|Seth Moulton

Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts       when carefully considered mitigated       and managed            the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these costs.|Seth Moulton

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives    and in return they are the places where social  environmental         and economic policies play out in practice.|Mark Walport

I do comparative studies of climate evolution     and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment      and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet’s habitability and how they change over time.|David Grinspoon

Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules     I’ve seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.|David Grinspoon

There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth.|David Grinspoon

EPA’s role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land – the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process.|Scott Pruitt

EPA will set a national standard for greenhouse gas emissions that allows auto manufacturers to make cars that people both want and can afford – while still expanding environmental and safety benefits of newer cars.|Scott Pruitt

We’re saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.|Scott Pruitt

We      as a country  have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship            reduction of those pollutants         but also grown our economy at the same time.|Scott Pruitt

As Oklahoma attorney general       it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma’s plan    but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma’s right to do so – particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans           and not federal bureaucrats           are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies.|Scott Pruitt

‘Sue and settle’ involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA      not through Congress or proper rule-making.|Scott Pruitt

As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey I have witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand.|Christine Todd Whitman

No clean energy development is complete without extensive environmental protections     and I’ve been proud to work in a bipartisan fashion with my colleagues in Congress to protect our most precious natural resources.|Elise Stefanik

The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the ‘Don’t Buy This Jacket’ campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space.|DeRay Mckesson

We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit.|David E. Sanger

I refuse to stand by and watch as Sen. Tester tries to implement his radical environmental agenda here and kill our coal industry and destroy thousands of Montana jobs.|Matt Rosendale

Foreign relations should involve human rights    workers’ rights         and environmental protection.|Kevin de Leon

No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions            but it has also caused congestion            environmental damage       and a disturbing death toll on the roads.|Theo Paphitis

Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.|Jaggi Vasudev

At least three studies           in the U.S.     Canada and Sweden            have linked glyphosate exposure to the disease and in 2015  the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer found glyphosate to be a ‘probable’ cause of cancer in humans. California’s state environmental protection agency has also declared it a probable carcinogen.|Erin Brockovich

When it comes to protecting workers        labour conditions    labour legislation    the rights for collective bargaining           when you look at our environmental standards  when you look at our public disclosure laws and accountability and securities regulations to ensure that companies abide by the law            we don’t have a level playing field with China.|Andrew Scheer

The position of Autism Speaks has been for quite awhile that we need to find out what’s happening. We know there’s a genetic component      and there’s an environmental trigger        and until we get to the bottom of what’s happening     no one knows what causes autism.|Elizabeth Emken

All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials but what matters is the energy it saves.|Dick Strawbridge

I’ve been making pieces dealing with environmental issues at least since 2004; I mean       I did stuff for the Sierra Club and the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge even back in the 1990s. But somewhere a little after 2004      Hummer hits me up. I’m like         ‘Are you kidding me?’|Shepard Fairey

Bolsonaro is a tropical Trump. They have a very common agenda      a very regressive agenda    when it comes to civil rights           social rights  and environmental rights.|Fernando Haddad

I do think we need to hold countries accountable who violate trade agreements that are already in place. We need to get stronger about enforcement         that in the future if we strike a trade agreement  toughening up labor standards and environmental standards and enforcement standards is something we absolutely need to do.|Julian Castro

In Westminster         I make sure I maximise my ability to represent my constituents. I can do that in a variety of ways: by asking written questions or questions in the House of Commons           through the scrutiny of bills and by sitting on the environmental audit select committee every week     as well as other committees.|Jo Swinson

Congress created tax-exempt 501(c)(4)s to operate exclusively for social welfare purposes like early childhood education environmental protection   and veteran’s assistance. However            an IRS regulation allows 501(c)(4)s to operate primarily for the promotion of social welfare.|Michelle Lujan Grisham

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth       jobs and competitiveness.|Chuka Umunna

I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of good grouse moor management.|Nicholas Soames

If we have an agreement with a country like Mexico     that doesn’t support or protect the rights of workers          that doesn’t have the same environmental regulations   how can Canadians ever compete with that jurisdiction?|Jagmeet Singh

I was part of Environment Canada’s work to stop acid rain       create national parks           clean up the Great Lakes         develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer.|Elizabeth May

The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.|Tom Anderson

Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool       when using it            you have to take into account the environmental impact       the food safety aspects and so on. There must be a strong regulatory mechanism.|M. S. Swaminathan

Californians want to have clean air           clean water – not like the Trump Administration is trying to do with its rollback of environmental regulations           like the reversal of the Clean Power Plan.|Ted Lieu

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.|Roger Scruton

Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth’s systems are highly complex  and complex systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways.|George Monbiot

A Klan member is not stamped from a standard cookie cutter. They come from all walks of life and various education levels and environmental situations which have led to their decision to join the Klan. The one common denominator that all share is lack of exposure to others who may not look like them or believe as they do.|Daryl Davis

Over the years           Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.|Kerry Kennedy

Throughout Africa   as in much of the world      women are responsible for tilling the fields        deciding what to plant         nurturing the crops  and harvesting the food. They are the first to be aware of environmental damage that harms agricultural production.|Kerry Kennedy

That’s what hurts the environmental movement – holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.|Laurie David

Environmental communicators are too cautious. I throw caution to the wind.|Laurie David

As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology         the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is – when there is a new environmental challenge     how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.|Robert Sapolsky

I began to lead two lives… one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment… and advocating for social and environmental justice.|Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Real environmental change depends on us. We can’t wait for our leaders. We have to focus on what our own responsibilities are and how we can make the change happen.|Severn Cullis-Suzuki

I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don’t necessarily identify with that word specifically because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.|Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.|Nina Turner

I think it’s particularly clear in borderline personality disorder (BPD) that there’s a strong association between early environmental deprivation and neglect and abuse and later outcome of BPD.|Simon Baron-Cohen

Genes are thought to contribute a certain amount to the cause of autism but it’s not 100 per cent. It might be about 60 per cent genetic. So there are going to be environmental factors that mediate the impact of autism.|Simon Baron-Cohen

Many people of color live on the front lines of environmental hazard and harm.|Martin Luther King III

I’ve learned so much about what you can do to help animals    the environmental issues around meat production.|Sarah Jeffery

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.|Hilary Benn

Whether that be starting conversations about environmental conservation or taking part in being a voice for people who don’t have a voice I just want to help people however I can.|Madelyn Cline

We have an older sister who gets pregnant easily. So Emily and I think there may be an environmental cause for our problems. Neither of us were very old when we started trying. But we’ve lived very parallel lives. We’ve been in a band together since I was 12 and she was 10. We can’t help but wonder            did we stay in a hotel near a power plant?|Martie Maguire

For more than 30 years        the state of Nevada and local communities have rejected the Yucca Mountain project. In fact     the state has filed over 200 contentions against the Department of Energy’s license application   challenging the adequacy of the department’s environmental impact assessments.|Jacky Rosen

Facts still matter       and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications.|Michael Shellenberger

Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers     public relations specialists and scientists willing to testify that this or that project poses only a modest threat to endangered birds and bats.|Michael Shellenberger

Recognizing nuclear as renewable and saving Diablo Canyon would be a bold move for Governor Newsom. It would upset his traditional anti-nuclear environmental allies.|Michael Shellenberger

Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately      even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.|Michael Shellenberger

I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly alarmist approach taken by most reporters     and look forward to contributing heterodoxical pieces on energy and the environment in the future.|Michael Shellenberger

Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such         adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the cost of generating electricity       locks in fossil fuels     and increases the environmental footprint of energy production.|Michael Shellenberger

Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly     less reliable  and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent – and yet that’s precisely what adding large amounts of solar and wind to the grid requires.|Michael Shellenberger

Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution         bacteria and moisture loss.|Paul Nassif

The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation’s environmental laws.|Andrew R. Wheeler

Americans have carried the burden of our government’s heavy-handed approach to environmental regulation for far too long – with rural and disadvantaged communities bearing the brunt.|Andrew R. Wheeler

Under President Donald Trump’s leadership       EPA has sought to undo and correct the Obama administration’s failed regulatory decisions         proving that environmental protection and economic prosperity go hand-in-hand.|Andrew R. Wheeler

Through our regulatory reforms    the Trump administration is proving that burdensome federal regulations are not necessary to drive environmental progress. What makes our actions effective and durable is our commitment to vigorously enforce them.|Andrew R. Wheeler

Through our deregulatory actions the Trump Administration has proven that burdensome federal regulations are not necessary to drive environmental progress.|Andrew R. Wheeler

I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.|Andrew R. Wheeler

We’re taking climate change seriously. But it’s not the only environmental issue that we face as a planet.|Andrew R. Wheeler

I have thought for years environmental issues need to be depoliticized.|Andrew R. Wheeler

Five years after the Chernobyl disaster    in the summer of 1991       the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence I visited Ukraine. I trekked out to the 20-mile exclusion zone – it had been cleared of all people after the accident – together with some local environmental activists.|Anne Applebaum

Greenhouse gas production water usage and environmental issues more broadly are being mitigated by Canadian technological advances more and more each year.|Erin O’Toole

Since environmental and health damage is not factored into reducing GDP – and in fact the resulting health costs and the costs of cleaning up the environment would also inflate GDP    a GDP obsessed government would try and dismantle environmental and health regulations.|Prashant Bhushan

When it comes to environmental regulation        the cruelty is the point.|Michael J. Knowles

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment    they actually increase the damage.|Michael J. Knowles

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports as well as in sports in general.|Brian France

E.U. law provides agency workers with the right to equal treatment   and all workers with maximum working hours. It forces governments to take environmental legislation seriously    and to protect air and water standards.|Clive Lewis

Systematic social and environmental deregulation         and the economics of austerity while enriching the rich           will be the markers of Farage/Tory politics after Brexit. Singapore-on-Sea for the rich; degradation for the rest.|Andrew Adonis  Baron Adonis

Any kind of workout has a lot of benefits. But working out in open spaces provides environmental stimulation and helps you connect with nature.|Gurmeet Choudhary

Humans are selfish  and because of our innate selfishness      I’m very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.|Liu Cixin

Certainly jellyfish are seasonal      and owing to a complex range of environmental features there are years when they will appear in far greater numbers.|Steve Backshall

I think people who speak and write about climate change and environmental degradation need to convey how interesting and important this topic is           because I’m not sure people will feel empowered to help if they don’t feel engaged and called to action.|Tatiana Schlossberg

Textile manufacturers use complicated chemical and industrial processes to make clothing materials            from cotton to synthetic fibers. And while the environmental consequences aren’t always clear            consumption is growing.|Tatiana Schlossberg

Environmental advocates say that changing how much power computers and monitors use in idle mode can cut greenhouse gas emissions without requiring consumers to change their behavior.|Tatiana Schlossberg

Coal ash gets far less attention than toxic and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants           but it has created environmental and health problems – every major river in the Southeast has at least one coal ash pond – and continuing legal troubles and large cleanup costs for the Tatiana Schlossbergity and other utilities.|Tatiana Schlossberg

Whether it was expanding healthcare       stimulating the local economy and job growth   innovating in the schools or protecting our precious environmental resources      Deval focused every day on moving Massachusetts forward.|Michael Capuano

I am committed to working with industry leaders           environmental advocates   and the people of Louisiana on a robust plan that provides much needed protection for our coast and environment and that meets the needs of offshore drilling.|John Bel Edwards

Yes     the ’60s went too far            but we were trying to find new ways        better ways   to do things. And great seeds were planted: civil rights           the peace movement           the environmental movement      feminism. They’re big seeds. They take a long time to come to fruition. Please        let’s stop fighting  and get out our water cans.|John Densmore

I think we should all try and do our bit to celebrate an eco-friendly Diwali to bring about an environmental change.|Mohit Raina

And what are the Liberals’ election talking points          in this age of environmental insecurity and economic anxiety? That Andrew Scheer is scary.|Neil Macdonald

When it comes to economic opportunity  environmental stewardship or just our ‘Live Free or Die’ quality of life Every Day Is a Holiday in the great state of New Hampshire.|Chris Sununu

It is a priority of my administration to continue New Hampshire’s long tradition of Environmental Conservationism.|Chris Sununu

As an environmental engineer who spent the early part of my career cleaning up groundwater contamination           I know firsthand the challenges of cleaning up contaminants and the risks posed to human health if we fail.|Chris Sununu

As an environmental engineer I spent many years cleaning up PCB contamination and I know firsthand the costs these efforts can place on individuals and communities.|Chris Sununu

Let’s learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China’s Great Leap Forward or the Soviet Union’s Five-Year Plan. Like those two disasters          the Green New Deal would cripple our country and sacrifice Americans on the altar of environmental extremism.|Lauren Boebert

We can solve the car-bike conflict and the solution unlocks a brighter           more inclusive economic and environmental future for Boston.|Michelle Wu

Vermont is a leader in environmental policy and natural resource management.|Phil Scott

As more companies look to reduce or negate their environmental footprint   it is crucial for Vermont to be a destination with an affordable renewable energy grid to partner with companies and achieve our shared goals.|Phil Scott