Top environmental Quotes Collection - Page 11

Discover a curated collection of environmental quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 11 provides more environmental quotes.

Image of Sharan Burrow
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of David Grinspoon
I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time.
- David Grinspoon
Collection: Environmental
Image of Nicole Malliotakis
As our country becomes a more urbanized nation, it's critically important that we continue to invest in green infrastructure projects that add essential economic and environmental value to our communities.
- Nicole Malliotakis
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michelle Steel
John Wayne Airport is a leader in environmental best practices, and the implementation of an entirely electric fleet of shuttle vehicles is another example of their commitment to sustainability and improving air quality for residents.
- Michelle Steel
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael Shellenberger
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.
- Michael Shellenberger
Collection: Environmental
Image of Johan Rockstrom
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of David Maisel
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Amber Valletta
At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend them.
- Amber Valletta
Collection: Environmental
Image of Tim Ryan
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Neil Macdonald
And what are the Liberals' election talking points, in this age of environmental insecurity and economic anxiety? That Andrew Scheer is scary.
- Neil Macdonald
Collection: Environmental
Image of Samuel Wilson
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
- Samuel Wilson
Collection: Environmental
Image of Katie McGinty
The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.
- Katie McGinty
Collection: Environmental
Image of Indira Gandhi
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
- Indira Gandhi
Collection: Environmental
Image of Lori Lightfoot
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Vivienne Westwood
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
- Vivienne Westwood
Collection: Environmental
Image of Xander Schauffele
Somewhere down the line I'd like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection, sustainability, the effects of pollution, and all of those things related to protecting nature.
- Xander Schauffele
Collection: Environmental
Image of Daryl Hannah
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Margaret Atwood
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Annie Leibovitz
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jimmy Carter
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Scott Pruitt
What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.
- Scott Pruitt
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jeff Dean
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Majora Carter
From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.
- Majora Carter
Collection: Environmental
Image of Josh Fox
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Bernie Sanders
Good environmental policy is good economic policy.
- Bernie Sanders
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael Shellenberger
Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and scientists willing to testify that this or that project poses only a modest threat to endangered birds and bats.
- Michael Shellenberger
Collection: Environmental
Image of David Suzuki
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Khalid A. Al-Falih
It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.
- Khalid A. Al-Falih
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
- Ma Jun
Collection: Environmental
Image of Boyan Slat
Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.
- Boyan Slat
Collection: Environmental
Image of Hugh Ross
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
- Hugh Ross
Collection: Environmental
Image of Luther Strange
Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.
- Luther Strange
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jim Clyburn
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Environmental
Image of Muhammad Yunus
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Paul Nassif
Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution, bacteria and moisture loss.
- Paul Nassif
Collection: Environmental
Image of Bruce Beutler
Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.
- Bruce Beutler
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Densmore
Yes, the '60s went too far, but we were trying to find new ways, better ways, to do things. And great seeds were planted: civil rights, the peace movement, the environmental movement, feminism. They're big seeds. They take a long time to come to fruition. Please, let's stop fighting, and get out our water cans.
- John Densmore
Collection: Environmental
Image of Pat Buchanan
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Naomi Klein
That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
- Naomi Klein
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mac Thornberry
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
- Mac Thornberry
Collection: Environmental
Image of Chuka Umunna
Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.
- Chuka Umunna
Collection: Environmental
Image of Chris Sununu
As an environmental engineer who spent the early part of my career cleaning up groundwater contamination, I know firsthand the challenges of cleaning up contaminants and the risks posed to human health if we fail.
- Chris Sununu
Collection: Environmental
Image of Zac Goldsmith
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
- Zac Goldsmith
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mike Love
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
- Mike Love
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jerry Greenfield
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.
- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
- Ma Jun
Collection: Environmental
Image of Liu Cixin
Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.
- Liu Cixin
Collection: Environmental