Top environmental Quotes Collection - Page 12

Discover a curated collection of environmental quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 12 provides more environmental quotes.

Image of Corey Feldman
I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.
- Corey Feldman
Collection: Environmental
Image of Nina Turner
Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.
- Nina Turner
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael Shellenberger
Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent - and yet that's precisely what adding large amounts of solar and wind to the grid requires.
- Michael Shellenberger
Collection: Environmental
Image of John S. Watson
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Abhijit Banerjee
It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.
- Abhijit Banerjee
Collection: Environmental
Image of Paul Polman
The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.
- Paul Polman
Collection: Environmental
Image of Henry Paulson
Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.
- Henry Paulson
Collection: Environmental
Image of Muhammad Yunus
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jamshyd Godrej
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael Shellenberger
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.
- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Collection: Environmental
Image of David Grinspoon
Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules, I've seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.
- David Grinspoon
Collection: Environmental
Image of Suzy Shuster
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.
- Ma Jun
Collection: Environmental
Image of Luther Strange
Every day, the hard-working men and women of Alabama's Department of Environmental Management are on the ground, protecting Alabama's rivers and lakes in a way that is beneficial to all. EPA should support them in that work, not make it more difficult.
- Luther Strange
Collection: Environmental
Image of Marianne Williamson
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Josh Fox
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Anohni
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Boyan Slat
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of John Anderson
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Noreena Hertz
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.
- Noreena Hertz
Collection: Environmental
Image of 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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
- Ma Jun
Collection: Environmental
Image of 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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Madelyn Cline
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Thomas R. Cech
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Annalee Newitz
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Tristram Stuart
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.
- Tristram Stuart
Collection: Environmental
Image of Clive Lewis
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Leslie Odom, Jr.
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.
Collection: Environmental
Image of Joe Biden
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jay Inslee
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ben Dolnick
When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.
- Ben Dolnick
Collection: Environmental
Image of 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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Scott Pruitt
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.
- Scott Pruitt
Collection: Environmental
Image of Robert Sapolsky
As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is - when there is a new environmental challenge, how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.
- Robert Sapolsky
Collection: Environmental
Image of Roger Scruton
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Gale Anne Hurd
We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.
- Gale Anne Hurd
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sherwood Boehlert
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
- Sherwood Boehlert
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ali Bongo Ondimba
If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.
- Ali Bongo Ondimba
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
- Barry Commoner
Collection: Environmental
Image of Caroline Lucas
I do think that if people are taking the time to think about their environmental footprint when it comes to how many flights they take, whether or not they have a 4X4, whether or not they are going to have a patio heater, then putting the question to themselves about how many kids they are going to have is a reasonable thing to do.
- Caroline Lucas
Collection: Environmental
Image of Majora Carter
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
- Majora Carter
Collection: Environmental
Image of Timothy Morton
My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good!
- Timothy Morton
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
- Ma Jun
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jacky Rosen
For more than 30 years, the state of Nevada and local communities have rejected the Yucca Mountain project. In fact, the state has filed over 200 contentions against the Department of Energy's license application, challenging the adequacy of the department's environmental impact assessments.
- Jacky Rosen
Collection: Environmental
Image of M. S. Swaminathan
Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the environmental impact, the food safety aspects and so on. There must be a strong regulatory mechanism.
- M. S. Swaminathan
Collection: Environmental
Image of Hope Jahren
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.
- Hope Jahren
Collection: Environmental