“We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.” ShouldProblemPurposeEnvironmentTasksShould HaveMovedDecadesPostsAddressesRealismCleaningOur EnvironmentZealVisionariesCleaning Up Book:Selected speeches Source: Selected speeches
“If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.” IfsWayShouldStoriesGovernmentFoundNaturalEnvironmentLandHorrorProtectResourcesGardenShould HaveUnionsEnvironmentalBest WayIronSovietOwnershipSoviet UnionCurtainsEdenNatural ResourcesGarden Of EdenHorror StoriesIron CurtainProtect The EnvironmentOwnership Of Land Author:Malcolm Wallop
“Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.” MenShouldFirstsWellsIdeasMomentsSeemsNaturalSpaceStepsEnvironmentHappenedAwarenessProtectConcernedShould HavePhotographFirst StepsNew IdeasCoincidenceNatural Environment Author:Fred Hoyle
“Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.” WantShouldCompanyEnvironmentConditionsCenturyShould HaveManagementWorkersThings To DoEmployee21st CenturyWagesGreat WorkHumaneBargainsWork EnvironmentFuture Direction Author:Nina Turner
“The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to anything that would place the interests of human beings or the environment at the center of what ought to be a government concern - should stop. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.” PeopleShouldHumansChildrenWholeGovernmentIndividualInterestNaturalWealthHuman BeingsRichEnvironmentOughtEssentialsResourcesConcernShould HaveCorporationsInfrastructureInheritanceTwistedRich PeopleNatural ResourcesHealth And Education Author:Arundhati Roy
“I like going to Burning Man, for example. That's an environment where people can try out different things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society, what's the effect on people, without having to deploy kind of into the normal world.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldShouldTryingWholeEnvironmentEffectsFiguresExampleSafeShould HaveWhole WorldBurningNew ThingsSafe PlacesBurning Man Author:Larry Page
“Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.” ShouldHumansKindIdeasFeelingsCareWaterResponsibilityEnvironmentToo MuchDisciplineConcernShould HaveEnvironmentalWorld Water Day Author:Dalai Lama
“After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led them little by little to the habit of living in the air, first by the water's edge and afterwards on all the dry parts of the globe. These animals have in course of time been profoundly altered by such novel conditions; which so greatly influenced their habits and organs that the regular gradation which they should have exhibited in complexity of organisation is often scarcely recognisable.” ShouldFirstsLittlesDifferentScienceCoursesWaterAnimalNovelEnvironmentAirConditionsEvolutionHabitShould HaveEnvironmentalEdgesComplexityDryOrgansGlobesVariationAlteredOrganisationDifferent Environments Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck