“The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).” FactsThreeEnjoyNaturalSimpleEnvironmentAtheismArgumentClaimsAverageBonesLocalsTraitsOrganismsMechanicSelectionInheritanceVariationAdaptedNatural SelectionOffspringInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature to be at the complete disposal of our own interests, for future generations also have the right to reap its benefits and to exhibit towards nature the same responsible freedom that we claim for ourselves. Nor must we overlook the poor, who are excluded in many cases from the goods of creation destined for all.” MenMeanDoeImportantInterestAnimalPoorCasesEnvironmentGenerationsCreationMaterialsBenefitsClaimsResponsibleEnvironmentalGoodsSustainabilityConsideringDestinedFuture GenerationReapExhibitsExcluded Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.” BornEnvironmentClaimsAgreeFeministGenderConvincedCoreStatementsBiology Author:Kristina Schroder
“Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.” PeoplePhilosophyFactsEnvironmentHeardAchieveRevolutionClaimsClarityManageAcademicBeginnersHegelVirtuosity Author:Ernest Gellner
“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.” BelieveGovernmentChallengesEnvironmentStreetsConditionsSecurityProductsWallClaimsNotesWorkersProfitConsumersCorporationsInvestorsToxicRegulationDiminishTaxpayersUnhealthyEmissionsLendingUnsafeHealthy FoodPredatoryGovernment RegulationBailoutsWorking ConditionsUnhealthy Food Author:Robert Reich
“And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.” IfsMeanMovingPoliticalEconomyEnvironmentParticularClaimsAttractionMessDoing GoodMoving InPolitical Economy Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore
“Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place. There are oil booms in the Dakotas, in North Dakota. They are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking. The left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment. Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.” TryingAmericaCoursesEvilHouseLeftGrowthNaturalCitiesEconomyEnvironmentMovementAreasClaimsTownsOilEmployeeOppositionGasMainstreamTwinsEnvironmentalistShowing UpDakotaNatural GasFrackingNorth Dakota Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.” GivingHumansSelfHappensNaturalKnownMoralEnvironmentLowsClaimsIncludingOfficialsInterviewsGlobal WarmingConceptionDocumentsPopePreparingGuardianPromotionImperativesRankingRight To LifeTropesSelf PromotionNatural Death Author:George Weigel
“With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero and may even be negative.” YearsMayFactsEnergyWaterEnvironmentNegativeClaimsClimate ChangePassingPassingsObservationZeroFeedbackPositive Feedback Author:William Happer
“How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You can be insured for almost anything if you pay enough for the premium, but if the insurance industry isn't willing to bet its money on the safety of [biotechnology], it means the risks are simply too high or too uncertain for them to take the gamble.” IfsMeanEnoughFactsInterestPayEnvironmentRiskWillingIndustryProtectTestsClaimsSafetyOur SocietyUncertainGambleLiabilityPremiumBiotechnology Book:From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis Source: From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis
“Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole of agricultural and livestock science and even human medicine, if sound, is merely the business of discovering certain natural patterns already in existence, putting together the various pieces and discovering their relationship to the whole universe; indeed such a process is science itself” IfsHumansDoneWholeTogetherCertainUniverseProcessSoundNaturalExistenceEnvironmentPiecesFailingClaimsMedicinePatternsVariousMissionsDiscoveringContinuingLivestock Author:Louis Bromfield
“The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 was voted on last Friday. Proponents claim this bill will help the environment, but what it really does is put another nail in the economy’s coffin.” DoeHelpingLastsEconomyEnvironmentClaimsTradeBillsNailsFridayCapsCoffins Author:Ron Paul