“Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world's destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment's claims.” WorldShouldBookHateBeliefPolicyCitizensMassConcernedClaimsEnvironmentalMakersEstablishmentEnvironmentalistDestitutePolicy Makers Author:Niger Innis
“The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.” HumansWellsHas BeensBeliefTheoryDemocraticEnvironmentalAcceptedOrthodoxInvestigationStood UpHeredityHuman Equality Author:Arthur Jensen
“I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.” RealChristianBeliefReligiousStruggleRecordsPositionEnvironmentalDrivenSecretaryInteriors Author:James G. Watt
“Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.” WorldGivingAgeDesireHumanityBeliefProcessGrowing UpGrowingModernDespairEnvironmentalDeeperGenuineIndividualismSustainabilityHumankindConsumptionSuperficialGiving BackStatureSustainingPredecessorsMeaninglessnessHedonismModern AgeConspicuous ConsumptionAnomie Author:David W. Orr
“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.” PeopleHumansActionEarthIndividualBeliefSimpleCommonEffortResponsibilityRolesGroupsSeaShareDivineMembersCapableFlowRegardEnvironmentalFishesConvictionPracticalsGuidanceSoilHeritageTranslateTestimonyStewardshipRespondingHuman FamilyPetroleumDivine GuidanceGroup Effort Author:Gilbert F. White
“I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.” Has BeensUseProblemAgeBeliefLanguageModernIntellectualIllusionTreatsBasesErrorsEnvironmentalProductionsDuesIncomeEconomistInabilityStewardshipSophisticationIrreplaceableSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.” NeedsHumansActionEarthValuesBeliefCommonRaceResponsibilityMembersEnvironmentalObligationHuman RaceDeprivedStewardshipAccordBe Confident Author:Gilbert F. White
“In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.” IfsWarSelfStatesAgeOrderBeliefInterestLeaderSawsDangerSeriousColdMassLogicEnvironmentalNuclearWelcomeCollapseCold WarSelf InterestDegradationApocalypticPrecariousEnvironmental Degradation Author:Ian Mcewan