Top 1200 Environmental Damage Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.
Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.
Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.
I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
I have sun damage. I cover it up with make-up.
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.
I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take [shooting] too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that.
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications.
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.
We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.
Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these costs.
Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
I urge President Trump to maintain American participation in the Paris Agreement - for the sake of our international leadership, economic competitiveness, and children's environmental future.
You know, chemo and radiation is a very tough customer. It does so much good, but it also does a lot of damage.
As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
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.
Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.
I believe that if today's youth work together raising our collective voice, we can affect the positive environmental change that Planet Earth needs so desperately.
That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.
Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.
I wonder what kind of environmental consciousness is to be developed in a family or a community where nature is seen as either an optional thing, not accessible to you, or something completely exotic, unwelcome.
Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.
Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.
What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
