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"Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic."
More quotes about Environmental
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"The environment is everything that isn't me."
Albert Einstein on Environmental -
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead on Environmental -
"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 on Environmental -
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
Henry David Thoreau on Environmental -
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."
John Muir on Environmental
More quotes by James Buchan
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"Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age."
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"There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation."
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"Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness."
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"Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required."
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"Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion."