Quotes About Environment

A lot of us have the same goals of wanting a great future for our kids and good paying jobs and having clean water when you turn on the tap.

China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

If everyone that has agreed to the Paris Agreement wants to meet their targets they are going to have to make renewables part of the equation. There's no other way out of it.

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week. I tend to write at home, in a room I've set aside for the task. I don't work well in cafes or busy, loud spaces, although I wish I could. It would mean greater flexibility for me.

Since the 1970s, California has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act.

It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality food that's going to be better for your health and better for the environment.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.

A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.