Quotes of: Environmental-issue Keyword

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green...

Zac Goldsmith

The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it's profoundly simple. You're almost insulting people's intelligence to explain it twice, just about making better decisions of where you want to go in your li...

Allan Savory

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

American

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorro...

Alex Steffen

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Galen Rowell

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

James Fallows

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Frank Murkowski

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Majora Carter

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Ted Turner

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Christopher Dodd

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societi...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

Jim Clyburn

There are two main reasons why this assumption is wrong. First, once basic material needs have been met, there is very little evidence that pursuing financial prosperity generates much extra happiness for individuals or for nations. Second, by blindl...

The Happiness Manifesto

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

Responsibilities to future generations: Environmental ethics

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

Melissa Bean

Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.

Robert Brady

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are lik...

From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Barry Commoner

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.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage