Quotes About Environment

In the practice of mindfulness, the ego's usual insistence on control and security is deliberately and progressively undermined. This is accomplished by steadily shifting one's center of gravity from the thinking mind to a neutral object like the breath, or in the case of my workshop, the random sounds of the environment.

O los seres humanos cogerán todos una enfermedad y se extinguirán o producirán demasiada contaminación y se matarán a ellos mismos, y entonces sólo habrá insectos en el mundo y ellos serán el mejor animal.

Breathing, for example, was never taken for granted, since, half the time, thanks to the many chemical works and refineries, it was nearly impossible.

How we eat, how much we exercise, how we manage stress, our exposure to environmental and food-based toxins, and the structural violence or "obesogenic environment" that influences these factors are what is truly driving our diabesity epidemic.

The average American child has consumed 7½ pounds of chemicals by the age of five.

Our bread is not what it used to be. It is more of a Frankenfood, a by-product of industrial agriculture or "super-starch and super-gluten." Combine that with the damage our guts have suffered from our diet, environment, lifestyle, and overuse of antibiotics, acid blockers, and anti-inflammatories, and you have the perfect storm for gluten intolerance.

Your zip code is a bigger determinant of your health outcomes than your genetic code.

Monsanto's herbicide Roundup has been linked to cancer.20 The World Health Organization released a statement that glyphosate (Roundup) is a "probable carcinogen" in humans.21

Nature may have even less patience than politicians.

Newfoundlanders debated over when the cod was coming back. Few dared ask if. Or what happens to the ocean if they don't come back?

One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.

Politics and nationalism often play far greater roles than conservation in the decision-making process.

The big culprit is methane gas, which, although it does not get as much attention as carbon dioxide, is more than twenty times as destructive in terms of climate change.

Marine ecology is complex and tightly interwoven.

A world without fishing would be sad.

But as soon as paper started to be made from trees, concern shifted to the destruction of the forests.

A few weeks after the Climategate emails were released, Dr Sprigg spoke at the 13th Energy & Environment Expo in Phoenix177: Focusing closely on the Climategate scandal, in which leaked emails revealed IPCC gatekeepers hid, manipulated, and destroyed scientific data that contradicted claims of substantial human-induced global warming, Sprigg said the scandal has harmed the movement's scientific credibility.

He loved Minnesota's flora and fauna and seemed ill-suited as either a fawner or floorer, a

For a century, Edison's light bulb was regarded as a beacon of American genius; then it became a 'climate criminal. That transformation is American decline in a nutshell.

Who does most damage to the climate movement? Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Jim Hansen, Peter Gleick, Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri (not necessarily in that order).

saying it gets warmer or colder by a few tenths of a degree, should be taken as evidence that the end of the world is coming.

the UN IPCC desperately needs this graph.

if you take away one single thing from Climategate, it's that the global warm-mongers have wholly corrupted the "peer-review" process.

the fact that the climate models do not reliably model the real climate.