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The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.Collection: Environmental
Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.Collection: Environmental
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.Collection: Environmental
That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.Collection: Environmental
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.Collection: Environmental
Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.Collection: Environmental
... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so the optimum scale of human economy in relation to the total economy becomes basically a question of sustainability. When the effects of the economy on the environment undercut the possibility of its own continuance, the scale is too large.Collection: Environmental
With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.Collection: Environmental
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.Collection: Environmental
These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.Collection: Environmental
Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.Collection: Environmental
The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.Collection: Environmental
CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.Collection: Environmental
On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!Collection: Environmental
Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.Collection: Environmental
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.Collection: Environmental
Nature does require her times of preservation.Collection: Environmental
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.Collection: Environmental
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.Collection: Environmental
It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.Collection: Environmental
Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.Collection: Environmental
I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve the environment not solely on the basis of satisfying human interests and not solely because we might attribute intrinsic value to the environment, but because the environment is something with which we can potentially enter into constructive relationship, as part of what makes us who we are or transform who we are and open us up to new interests.Collection: Environmental
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.Collection: Environmental
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.Collection: Environmental
I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.Collection: Environmental
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.Collection: Environmental
The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.Collection: Environmental
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.Collection: Environmental
Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.Collection: Environmental
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.Collection: Environmental
It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.Collection: Environmental
We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.Collection: Environmental
Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.Collection: Environmental
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.Collection: Environmental
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.Collection: Environmental
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.Collection: Environmental
Everything in nature is resurrection.Collection: Environmental
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?Collection: Environmental
A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.Collection: Environmental
Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.Collection: Environmental
The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.Collection: Environmental
Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.Collection: Environmental
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say nowCollection: Environmental
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.Collection: Environmental
Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.Collection: Environmental
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.Collection: Environmental
I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.Collection: Environmental
All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.Collection: Environmental
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.Collection: Environmental