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- 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 Burgess on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
- Clive Anderson on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
- Robert Collier on Environmental
- People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
- Michael Pollan on Environmental
- Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
- Thomas Malthus on Environmental
- Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
- Dennis Weaver on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
- Frank Murkowski on Environmental
- Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
- Leonardo DiCaprio on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.
- Matt Gonzalez on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Barry Commoner on Environmental
- The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
- Ted Danson on Environmental
- The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
- Dixie Lee Ray on Environmental
- The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.
- Daniel Goleman on Environmental
- The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
- Samuel Wilson on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Barry Commoner on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
- Richard Rogers on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
- Ed Rendell on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- Noam Chomsky on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
- David R. Brower on Environmental
- There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
- Galen Rowell on Environmental
- 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 on Environmental
- There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
- James Fallows on Environmental
- There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
- Maggie Q on Environmental
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