“The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.” IfsMayHas BeensNextTermWealthTechnologyGenerationsModernEvidenceCrisisEnvironmentalDebtProductivityFraudExploitationRapidsNext GenerationShort TermWipeInsidiousSomberModern TechnologyEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.” ShouldYearsPlayFactsPoliticalIndividualDifferencesStudyGroupsMediaEvidenceEnvironmentalPassingPassingsFactorsExplanationContributionAppropriateResolutionAssociationIdeologicalPolitically CorrectEnvironmental Factors Author:J. Philippe Rushton
“The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.” BodyExistenceStruggleEvidenceResourcesCompetitionEnvironmentalComplexityOrganismsDarwinismStruggle For Existence Author:Richard Lewontin
“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.” MayPastLawNextCausesWaterCommonHalfFeetCenturyAmountCoupleBecomingOceanHighestPercentEvidenceIncreaseEnglandTwentiesEnvironmentalAverageWaveOilDecadesHeightRisingFreakCoastNinetyEightyRisenOver The PastBecoming More Author:Sebastian Junger
“I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is to say that environmental concerns should certainly be addressed. We're not suggesting that any kind of development trample upon the existing laws that are there to insure that we maintain as high a quality of environment as possible.” ThinkingShouldKindLawQualitySupportEnvironmentDevelopmentEvidenceConcernCriticismEnvironmentalSuggesting Author:George Deukmejian
“The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.” HandsScienceChoicesEnvironmentCreatingEvidenceDestructionResponseEnvironmentalClimate ChangeCatastropheRecklessAccelerateEnvironmental Destruction Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.” ProblemCausesNaturalClearCuttingOne ThingEconomicEvidenceClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeFoolishSignificantObservationGlobal WarmingPenaltiesHarshSevereConvincingDrasticHypotheticalEnvironmental ProblemsConvincing Evidence Author:Frederick Seitz
“Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero... If we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.” IfsBelieveHumansPersonsProblemWould BeIndividualViewsIssuesSeriousTruth IsEvidenceImportanceManagementEnvironmentalClimate ChangeSizePopulationCriticalRationalAtmosphereContributionZeroReducingEmissionsFootprint Author:Chris Rapley
“Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.” PeopleActionWantedEarthUnderstoodEvidenceThreatEnvironmentalResolveEarth DayFirefighterWorld Earth Day Author:Barry Commoner
“Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.” PeopleNeedsLooksHas BeensHardStoriesCoursesAnswersMediaMovementInvolvedSolutionsEvidenceBuiltEnvironmentalDataGlobal WarmingShyPuzzlesPropositionsGet InvolvedCapturedReluctantInsistenceDrasticClout Author:Don Aitkin