Quotes About Environment

The more users there are, the more resource is used. The more resource is used, the less there is per user.

Understanding layers of limits and keeping an eye on the next upcoming limiting factor is not a recipe for perpetual growth, however. For any physical entity in a finite environment, perpetual growth is impossible. Ultimately, the choice is not to grow forever but to decide what limits to live within.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

It was many years before I could call myself an activist – someone who resists the wishes of the powerful, someone who stands up on behalf of those who cannot speak: the trees and water and fish and caribou. But now I understand that this struggle is emerging all over the planet. And it is the most important battle we have ever fought.

God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

Los angeles saben que el ruido es un estresante que puede crispar los nervios, interrumpir nuestros suenos y socavar nuestra paz interior.

How to deal with the chauvinism was something else again. Anne Beatts wanted to confront it directly, in unity, perhaps by forming a "coalition" to take their grievances to Lorne. Marilyn Miller didn't go for that. The show was no different from any corporate environment, she said: You either put up quality work or shut up. Organized movements got you nowhere.

Any act of violence results from the convergence of many risk factors that may include access to weapons, home environment, peer influences, mental health issues, substance use, and social isolation, among many others. Violent media, including music, may be one of those risk factors but is neither sufficient nor necessary for people to commit acts of violence

Conservation," Pinchot famously wrote, "means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.

Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.

The more I immerse myself in science and technology, the greater my need to retreat back to nature. I find it easier to contemplate life and philosophy surrounded by this environment.

Trees are still more soothing than steel and cement, despite the lack of a purely intellectual argument as to why this should be so. " Carr

The more I immerse myself in science and technology, the greater my need to retreat back to nature. I find it easier to contemplate life and philosophy surrounded by this environment. Our minds may have allowed us to transcend our environment, but our DNA still knows we were built to live in nature. Trees are still more soothing than steel and cement, despite the lack of a purely intellectual argument as to why this should be so.

The most important environmental determinants that come into play are the quality of relationships with friends and family. And challenging ourselves, pursuing what we are passionate about, and achieving. What really makes a life rewarding is facing challenges, overcoming them, and growing as a

Treating water to reuse or recycle water does not necessarily mean it's going to be drinkable.

The only real answer, the really simple one that neither philanthrocapitalists nor green technologists want to hear, is that we have to reduce our energy consumption altogether.

Publicly traded corporations direct financial surpluses back to investors, CEOs, and boards of directors. They have little incentive to churn it back into the business and, as we have seen, a great deal of incentive to maximize surpluses at the expense of employees, the environment, and even the corporation itself.82

If nothing else, living in a digital media environment should help us become more aware of the programming all around us.

It's as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

the traditional form of Hoshin Kanri, there is a grouping of four perspectives. It is no surprise that the balanced scorecard perspectives are mirror images (see Exhibit 1.8). As with the balanced scorecard, Hoshin Kanri can be improved with the introduction of employee satisfaction and environment and community. EXHIBIT 1.8 Similarities between Hoshin Kanri and Balanced Scorecard Perspectives

Use plants to bring life.

God requires His people to bring up their covenant children in an environment dominated by the Word of God.

May the world enjoy a year that is free of hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, drought, and political speeches, which produce the most wind of all.