Top environmental Quotes Collection - Page 13

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Image of Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Systematic social and environmental deregulation, and the economics of austerity while enriching the rich, will be the markers of Farage/Tory politics after Brexit. Singapore-on-Sea for the rich; degradation for the rest.
- Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Collection: Environmental
Image of 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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jairam Ramesh
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael Shellenberger
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Tatiana Schlossberg
Coal ash gets far less attention than toxic and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, but it has created environmental and health problems - every major river in the Southeast has at least one coal ash pond - and continuing legal troubles and large cleanup costs for the authority and other utilities.
- Tatiana Schlossberg
Collection: Environmental
Image of Freddie Prinze, Jr.
I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.
- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Collection: Environmental
Image of Matt Gonzalez
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael Frome
I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.
- Michael Frome
Collection: Environmental
Image of Andrew R. Wheeler
The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation's environmental laws.
- Andrew R. Wheeler
Collection: Environmental
Image of Rebecca MacKinnon
Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.
- Rebecca MacKinnon
Collection: Environmental
Image of Robert Kennedy, Jr.
I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.
- Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Collection: Environmental
Image of Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.
- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jerry Greenfield
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Sara Gilbert
You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.
- Sara Gilbert
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
- Ma Jun
Collection: Environmental
Image of Aisha Tyler
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
- Aisha Tyler
Collection: Environmental
Image of Zac Goldsmith
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
- Zac Goldsmith
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ramez Naam
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Michael J. Knowles
Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.
- Michael J. Knowles
Collection: Environmental
Image of 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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jane Velez-Mitchell
The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.
- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Collection: Environmental
Image of Stephen Fincher
You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'
- Stephen Fincher
Collection: Environmental
Image of Peter Singer
If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.
- Peter Singer
Collection: Environmental
Image of Vivienne Westwood
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ellen Stofan
To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.
- Ellen Stofan
Collection: Environmental
Image of Dan Lipinski
For TPP to get my vote, it must benefit America's middle class, raise wages, and safeguard the consumer and environmental protections that we rely upon.
- Dan Lipinski
Collection: Environmental
Image of Tristram Stuart
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Severn Cullis-Suzuki
I don't want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I'm really different. I have different issues. I'm more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.
- Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
- Ma Jun
Collection: Environmental
Image of Katie McGinty
As governor, I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement the plan's recommendations.
- Katie McGinty
Collection: Environmental
Image of Fred Upton
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Scott Pruitt
'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making.
- Scott Pruitt
Collection: Environmental
Image of Samuel Wilson
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Zac Goldsmith
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Paul Polman
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Volodymyr Zelensky
We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.
- Volodymyr Zelensky
Collection: Environmental
Image of Kevin Richardson
I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.
- Kevin Richardson
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jared Diamond
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Paul Watson
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
- Paul Watson
Collection: Environmental
Image of Ma Jun
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Peter Heller
I write a lot of environmental stories.
- Peter Heller
Collection: Environmental
Image of Neri Oxman
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Jeremy Grantham
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Barry Commoner
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
Collection: Environmental
Image of Scott Pruitt
We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.
- Scott Pruitt
Collection: Environmental
Image of Andrew R. Wheeler
Americans have carried the burden of our government's heavy-handed approach to environmental regulation for far too long - with rural and disadvantaged communities bearing the brunt.
- Andrew R. Wheeler
Collection: Environmental