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“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.”

Thinking Problem Causes Records Solutions India Environmental Track Corporate Technological Stance Fundamentalist Environmentalist Track Record Environmental Problems

Author:Jairam Ramesh

“The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.”

Thinking Has Beens Impact Environmental Disaster Modest Spills Oil Spill Environmental Impact

Author:Tony Hayward

“This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.”

Country Response Environmental Oil Disaster Responding Spills Oil Spill

Author:Carol Browner

“Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.”

“Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.”

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Author:James Lovelock

“A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.”

“A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.”

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Author: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.”

Wells States Numbers Known Mines Type Projects Environmental Instance Coal Well Known Restoration Removal Dams Wetlands Washington State Reclamation

Author:Matt Gonzalez

“The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.”

Source: Ecology and our endangered life-support systems

“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.”

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Author:Jeremy Grantham

“The language "it's too late" is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.”

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Author:Jeremy Grantham

“Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.”

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Author:T. Colin Campbell

“There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.”

Has Beens Country Used Social Economic Crisis Environmental Financial Protected Banking Financial Crisis Economic Crisis Environmental Crisis Banking Crisis

Author:Jean-Francois Cope

“I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.”

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Author:Beau Garrett

“Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.”

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Author:Steven W. Mosher

“The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.”

May Seems Age Society Century Disease Environmental Twentieth Century Powerlessness Power Failure

Author:Russell Baker

“By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.”

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Author:William Cronon

“Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998

“[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.”

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Author:James Fallows

“There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.”

Problem Surprise Environmental China Graves Environmental Problems

Author:James Fallows

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

“Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.”

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Book:Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan

Source: Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan

“I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.”

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Author:Martina Navratilova

“In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.”

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Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.”

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.”

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Author:Paul Hawken

“All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the dizzying heights he once occupied... . with the coming of the environmental crisis, our relationship to society has changed. We cannot ... pretend that ... a hundred space spectaculars can restore things to what they were.”

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Author:Samuel Florman

“Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something about it.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.”

Ifs Matter Religion Evil Source Prove Environmental Excess Moderation Desirable

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?”

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Book:THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE

Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE

“Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?”

Should Self Leader Practice Environmental

Author:David Frum

“I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.”

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Author:David Frum

“For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.”

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Author:Janine Benyus

“If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.”

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Author:David Agus

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Cech

“I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.”

Thinking Way Needs Ideas Government Growth Pleasure Rich Cutting Taxes Negative Cat Environmental Workers Protection Fats Strokes Old Fashioned Environmental Protection Negative Thinking

Author:Vince Cable

“Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.”

Policy Holy Environmental Compromise Ecosystems

Author:David James Duncan

“The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.”

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Author:Wendy Davis

“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.”

“Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.”

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Author:Jeff Goodell

“Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.”

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Author:Jerry Greenfield

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