Best waste & millions Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.”

People Ifs Humans Use Animal Millions Cutting Materials Waste Areas Increase Plant Billions Forests Soil Agriculture Acres Manure Cutting Down

Author:Norman Borlaug

“Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.”

People World Two Country Energy Half Millions Economy Waste Percent Resources Accounts Billions Consumers Wealthy Toxic Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption Affluent

Author:Stuart L. Hart

“One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up”

Years Causes Levels Millions Waste Dollars Clean Accidents Strikes Terrorist Damage Catastrophe Involving High Level

Author:Shelley Berkley

“To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.”

Government Poor Pay Millions Products Waste Performances Dollars Height Incomplete Bonus Mismanagement Poor Performance Government Waste

Author:Jim Gibbons

“The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.”

Film Results Millions Media Produce Huge Cost Waste News Hearing Exploration Investigation Space Exploration Nasa Kevin News Media

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.”

Years Millions Five Impossible Building Waste Years Ago Dollars Five Years Site Million Dollars

Author:David Walker

“Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.”

Way Needs Years Millions Fields Waste Mouths Environmental Stores Hungry Kitchen Restaurants Pounds Stewardship Dumpsters

Author:Dan Glickman

“... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.”

“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.”

“Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.”

Millions Waste Late Environmental Chemicals Pollution Discarded

Book:Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

Source: Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.”

“The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates.”

Government Individual Levels Millions Cases Waste Evidence Climbs Penalties Dna Death Penalty Inmates Death Row Dna Evidence Government Waste

Author:John McLaughlin

“Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.”

“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.”

Ifs Way War Whole Young Sides Millions Cutting Generations Sacrifice Youth Flower Waste Destruction Distance Affair Myth Superiors Officials Survivor Meaningless Both Sides Wwi Flanders

Author:Robert Hughes

“Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.”

“None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.”

Knows Want Made Bigs Care Film Turns Deals Half Millions Risk Cost Waste Twenties Dollars Profit Budgets Thirty Million Dollars No One Cares

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth - we go through 602 million gallons a day of waste in the United States because people are used to hearing the water run while they brush their teeth.”

People Ifs States Hands Running Used Water United Millions United States Teaching Waste Hearing Teeth Conservation Brushes Hand In Hand Gallons Water Conservation

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.”

Men World Use Earth Results Millions Sky Planets Waste Ocean Creating Percent Resources Areas Rivers Nuclear Global Warming Toxic Eighty

Author:Benjamin Creme

“We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.”

Ifs America Bits Millions Produce Waste Plant Alcohol Fuel Gallons Sewage

Author:Josh Tickell

“There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!”

World Made Moving Speak Water Known Millions Cases Five Air Waste Ocean Pressure Forgotten Currents Our World Plastic Soup Spinning Spirals Discarded Spinning Around Ocean Currents

Author:Brandon Boyd

“That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN”

Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.”

Firsts Long Has Beens Light Energy Stars Parent Millions Minutes Events Waste Accounts Patterns Nuclear Tiny Opening Bombs Guts Atoms Locked Decay Bangs Uranium Supernova Nuclear Waste Potassium

Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Said Asks Grows Stuff Opinion Millions Growing Up Like You Waste Forests Adam Cowboy Pirate Whales

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.”

Source: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

“That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will be self deceiving and a waste of time to advocate dialogue with those who are not ready to listen, because it is obvious that the freedom of millions is not a commodity subject to bargaining. It is better to die free than to live as slaves.”

Men Self Dream Dies Millions Subjects Produce Ready Waste Slave Lifetime Satisfaction Obvious Dialogue Wasting Time Deceiving Fulfilled Aspire Commodity Not Ready Bargaining

Author:Haile Selassie

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