Quotes About Environment

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

The sea is heated by the sun (at a net rate QN) and stirred at the

Seems there's a man in the swamp off 17 that forgot you need to breathe to socialize in these parts.

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

world of poverty and hunger and crime and disease and greed and dishonesty and prejudice and war and genocide and religious bigotry and runaway population growth and abuse of the environment and immigration strife and you-get-the-leftovers educational policies and a hundred other horrors?

tomar y cuáles medicamentos dejar de consumir; reducir el estrés diario e incluso la exposición a sustancias químicas en el medio ambiente; fortalecer tus relaciones humanas y mejorar tu cuidado personal;

Just for fun, have a look at Miami. The nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists calculates that by 2060, a staggering 58.5% of Miami's inhabitable land will be underwater. By 2100, it'll be more like 94%. Miami is going away.

For example, if you click Washington, DC, you learn that by 2080 it will feel like today's Greenwood, Mississippi, which is 9.8° hotter and 75% wetter than today's DC. And if you click Jacksonville, Florida, you discover that it will feel like the southern tip of Mexico—practically Belize.

Ecological disturbance causes diseases to emerge. Shake a tree, and things fall out.

To say again: One in every four species of mammal is a bat.

Ningún otro primate ha tenido nunca el peso que ponemos sobre el planeta en semejante grado. En términos ecológicos, somos casi una paradoja; gran tamaño y vida prolongada, pero abundantes hasta lo grotesco. Somos una plaga.

Wilson came up with this: "When Homo sapiens passed the six-billion mark we had already exceeded by perhaps as much as 100 times the biomass of any large animal species that ever existed on the land.

What makes a species of insect—or of mammal, or of microbe—capable of the outbreak phenomenon? That's a complicated question that the experts are still trying to answer.

know that walking into a small woodlot," he wrote, "is riskier than walking into a nearby large, extensive forest.

One: Mankind's activities are causing the disintegration (a word chosen carefully) of natural ecosystems at a cataclysmic rate.

Three: But now the disruption of natural ecosystems seems more and more to be unloosing such microbes into a wider world.

Trophic cascades, as defined by Diamond in his "Rosetta Stone" paper, are the secondary effects that can ramify from level to level in consequence of a single extinction.

It is a conflict between man and his parasites27 which, in a constant environment, would tend to result in a virtual equilibrium, a climax state, in which both species would survive indefinitely. Man, however, lives in an environment constantly being changed by his own activities, and few of his diseases have attained such an equilibrium.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most useful resources ever discovered-- to provide a substitute for dirt --the cheapest and most widely available agricultural input imaginable.

People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantages, even today most organic farmers still rely on the plow - the chief culprit in the this story. Why? Because it provides cheap, reliable weed suppression." David Montgomery - Growing a Revolution