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"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 don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."
Dennis Weaver"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. -Ban Ki"
moon"The future will either be green or not at all."
Bob Brown"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand."
Christopher Dodd"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."
Richard Rogers"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
Aldo Leopold"Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented."
Barry Commoner"The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical."
Carlos Ghosn"I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment."
Pat Buckley"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
John Muir"Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived."
Sidney Sheldon"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
Kurt Vonnegut"Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us."
Bill Nye"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"The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it."
Mike Huckabee"The environment is everything that isn't me."
Albert Einstein"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."
Wangari Maathai"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
Stewart Udall"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
Margaret Mead"Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest."
James Lovelock"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
John Muir"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
William Inge"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
Jacques Yves Cousteau"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."
Alex Trebek"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"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means."
Garrett Hardin"We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."
Elon Musk"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
E. O. Wilson"Every drop in the ocean counts."
Yoko Ono"Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever."
Leonardo DiCaprio"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."
Tom Allen"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
Ansel Adams"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"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"I think the future for solar energy is bright."
Ken Salazar"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
Anna Freud"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."
Henry David Thoreau"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
Al Gore"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"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."
Bill Gates"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you."
John Muir"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself."
Paul Hawken"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
Robert Redford"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
Roger Tory Peterson"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
Henry David Thoreau"The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence."
Dan Lipinski"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
Elon Musk"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."
Al Gore"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."
Aeschylus"The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced."
Elon Musk"Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history."
Jacques Yves Cousteau"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"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"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy."
Michael C. Burgess"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."
Gro Harlem Brundtland"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"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"Mother Nature is not sweet."
John Shelby Spong"Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them."
G. Gordon Liddy"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming."
Vaclav Klaus"Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water."
Will Steger"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 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"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
Thomas Malthus"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"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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."
Barry Commoner"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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
Erich Fromm"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"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."
Elon Musk"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"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"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"
Dennis Weaver"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now."
James Lovelock"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"We must return to nature and nature's god."
Luther Burbank"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"People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature."
Russel Honore"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs."
Jim Clyburn"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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
Aldo Leopold"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
Brian Mulroney"The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics."
Craig Venter"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
James Lovelock"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"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"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."
Ted Turner"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science."
Jim Inhofe"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"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"Harmful Algal Blooms are a serious environmental and economic threat to New Jersey."
Mikie Sherrill"Good environmental policy is good economic policy."
Bernie Sanders"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"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"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
Peter Benchley"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
Unknown"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
Susan George"Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught."
Victoria Principal"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"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"For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals."
Alexandra Paul"I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric."
Alexandra Paul"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"It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit."
Gloria Reuben"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"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"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"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"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"I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies."
Paul Krugman"I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry."
Frank Murkowski"The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it."
Jim Fowler"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
Elon Musk"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"Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country."
Richard Lugar"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"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"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"From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation."
Majora Carter"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 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"I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president."
Rachel Corrie"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"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"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."
Donella Meadows"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
Isaac Bashevis Singer"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."
Michael Pollan"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"Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues."
Timothy Morton"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"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"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"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"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"The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States."
T. Boone Pickens"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented."
Dixie Lee Ray"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
Dixie Lee Ray"It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit."
Charles Saatchi"What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation."
Naomi Klein"I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective."
Richard Linklater"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"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"This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work."
Natalie Jeremijenko"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
Will Durant"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"Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work."
John Garamendi"There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!"
David R. Brower"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
Joseph Wood Krutch"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"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"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"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"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"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"Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe."
Dan Lipinski"Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change."
Muhammad Yunus"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."
Lionel Trilling"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
Noam Chomsky"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."I've learned so much about what you can do to help animals, the environmental issues around meat production."
Sarah Jeffery"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"Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father."
Jim Jeffords"This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment."
Jim Jeffords"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"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."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"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"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"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"We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible."
Ma Jun"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"It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection."
Robert Zubrin"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"I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF."
Marshall Curry"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"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"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"The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development."
Indira Gandhi"When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science."
Celeste Ng"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
Gale Norton"Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses."
Melissa Bean"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"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"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"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."
David R. Brower"We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal."
Albert Wynn"The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids. -Jane Velez"
Mitchell"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"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"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"Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage."
Michael J. Knowles"Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil."
Dennis Weaver"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"'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"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"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"Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim."
Michael E. Mann"Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century."
John Doerr"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"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."
Henry David Thoreau"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"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"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."
David Attenborough"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"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"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"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"Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty."
Ramez Naam"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"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"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"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"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 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"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"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"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"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"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"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"In a world of serious threats to the U.K. and to global stability, where we see violence and conflict pulling people back into poverty, international terrorism, migration crises, children dying from preventable diseases and global environmental concerns on the rise, Britain's leadership on the world stage is more important than ever."
Priti Patel"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"Trans issues are also environmental issues. They're also healthcare issues. They're also national security issues."
Sarah McBride"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"In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it."
Fritz Todt"You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green."
Shalom Harlow"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"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"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"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"I have thought for years environmental issues need to be depoliticized."
Andrew R. Wheeler"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"A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate."
Donella Meadows"I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference."
Brooke Burke"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've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years."
Martina Navratilova"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"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"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"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"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"Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics."
Neri Oxman"I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis."
Sarah Parcak"It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth."
Abhijit Banerjee"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young."
Robert Kennedy, Jr."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"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"At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history."
Arlo Guthrie"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"In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families."
Wangari Maathai"Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. -Ban Ki"
moon"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"Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues."
Bernie Sanders"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."
Barry Commoner"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"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"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"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"Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion."
Alexander Cockburn"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves."
Robert Collier"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"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"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."
Jacques Yves Cousteau"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."
Annie Dillard"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"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"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"The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems."
Mark Kurlansky"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"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"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"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"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition."
John Portman"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"This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades."
Jerry Costello"Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."
Barry Commoner"We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas."
Mac Thornberry"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'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"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"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"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"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"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"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"A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good."
Antoine Predock"Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem."
Michael Shellenberger"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"I write a lot of environmental stories."
Peter Heller"Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive."
Paul Stamets"There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table."
Ed Rendell"If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?"
Maria Konnikova"Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects."
Bjarke Ingels"Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy."
Jeremy Corbyn"With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without."
Jacque Fresco"Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement."
Jaggi Vasudev"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"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"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"Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth."
Ramez Naam"There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out."
Becky Albertalli"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"No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. -Yann Arthus"
Bertrand"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."
John Dewey"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."
O. Henry"We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation."
Andrew Weil"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"Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?"
Jeff Goodell"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"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"A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues."
Judith Rodin"Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth."
Ali Bongo Ondimba"Our obligation to fight pollution traces the roots of its persuasion to that same moral mountaintop from which my father lent his voice to the voiceless. The pursuit of civil equality in health helped build our environmental laws."
Martin Luther King III"To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior."
Herbert A. Simon"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"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"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"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"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"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."
Ted Danson"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"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"Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments."
Natalie Jeremijenko"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"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"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"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"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"Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws."
Charles Duhigg"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home."
Roger Scruton"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"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming."
John Coleman"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"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"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"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
Marshall McLuhan"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"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"It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now."
David Attenborough"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"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"Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?"
Gale Norton"Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks."
Frank Murkowski"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"If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too."
Nina Fedoroff"Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues."
Gaylord Nelson"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"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 authors."
Tristram Stuart"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"Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy."
Michael Shellenberger"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"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"The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should."
Samuel Wilson"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 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"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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
Galen Rowell"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
Galen Rowell"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"Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address."
Brad Schneider"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"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"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"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"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
Christopher Alexander"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"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"Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late."
John Delaney"I have never moved away from my mainstay - trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking."
Erin Brockovich"I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach."
Kevin Richardson"If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it."
Margaret Atwood"Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights."
Muhammad Yunus"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"Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?"
David Frum"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 ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida."
Natalie Jeremijenko"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"Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates."
Samuel Wilson"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"Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing."
Johan Rockstrom"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"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"We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality."
Jochen Zeitz"More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance."
Simon Mainwaring"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"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"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"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've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following."
Maurice Strong"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"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"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development."
Anna Lindh"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"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"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 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"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"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"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 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"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"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"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"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"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"We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease."
Simon Mainwaring"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"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"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"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"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"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"Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern."
Rashida Tlaib"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"There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions."
Peter Maurer"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"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 would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive. -Khalid A. Al"
Falih"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"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"If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact."
Peter Singer"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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."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"We don't value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems."
Monty Don"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"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"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"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"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
Maurice Strong"One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'"
Mike Love"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"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 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"There are several issues why we are opposed to bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency region, like environmental pollution, threat to rivers, and tourism."
Kishore Chandra Deo"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"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 like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues."
Mackenzie Crook"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"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"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"Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience."
Paul Watson"We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards."
Ma Jun"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."
Ronald Reagan"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"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"There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law."
Chris Stewart"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"What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition."
Scott Pruitt"Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in."
Ramez Naam"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"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"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"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"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"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