Environmental quotes
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"I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world."
"Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness."
"Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance."
"Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care"
"Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all."
"Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s."
"Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim."
"Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons."
"The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth."
"Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences."
"[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement."
"I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry; they will be products of technology. Where else can they come from?"
"We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature."
"Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"We need the tonic of wildness."
"The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single most important issue facing the environmental community and communities as a whole."
"Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation."
"Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere."
"The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights."
"The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening."
