Quotes About Environment

Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.

2005 is highly likely to be a more challenging environment, both for policymakers and investors.

At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.

When policymakers, financiers and scientists describe the world decades from now, in the throes of climatic changes that we now only model, they emphasize what might be lost.

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

We have, here in California, among the most ambitious climate goals in the country. It's not just our political leaders or our regulators that really wants these things.

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

I wasn't raised in a politically charged house.

Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.

We get the politicians we deserve and the environment we deserve.

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.

Working class communities, like the one I grew up in, have long felt the disproportionate and cumulative impacts of pollution.

I believe that cleansing and hydrating is extremely important, especially with the environment's condition and the pollution around.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.