Top 1200 Environmental Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis.

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Americans have carried the burden of our government's heavy-handed approach to environmental regulation for far too long - with rural and disadvantaged communities bearing the brunt.

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers.

I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

I think having an infant causes a bit of an identity crisis.

Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

If the U.S. fails to set the rules for global trade, then other countries with records of environmental and labor abuses, like China, will step in to fill the void.

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.