There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
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.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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...
We line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental problems like incinerators, waste dumps, acid rain, global warming and pollution. But we don't understand that when we add up all the tiny environmental problems each of us creates, we end up...
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.
There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.
