Quotes About Environment

Eric Helzer and David Pizarro asked students at Cornell University to fill out surveys about their political attitudes while standing near (or far from) a hand sanitizer dispenser. Those told to stand near the sanitizer became temporarily more conservative.27

When corporations are given the ring of Gyges, we can expect catastrophic results (for the ecosystem, the banking system, public health, etc.).

In one of the most bizarre demonstrations of this effect, Eric Helzer and David Pizarro asked students at Cornell University to fill out surveys about their political attitudes while standing near (or far from) a hand sanitizer dispenser. Those told to stand near the sanitizer became temporarily more conservative.27

If you want to make people behave more ethically, there are two ways you can go. You can change the elephant, which takes a long time and is hard to do. Or, to borrow an idea from the book Switch, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath,54 you can change the path that the elephant and rider find themselves traveling on. You can make minor and inexpensive tweaks to the environment, which can produce big increases in ethical behavior.

If genetic evolution was able to fine-tune our bones, teeth, skin, and metabolism in just a few thousand years as our diets and climates changed, how could genetic evolution not have tinkered with our brains and behaviors as our social environments underwent the most radical transformation in primate history?

soil-colored liquid was a bog and he was sinking.

It's horrible, and we humans, just as always, will be the cause. Screw up the water. Fuck up the air. Cut down the trees and shit on the world. We'll call it science. We'll call it sport.

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From the moment that the first plow blade bit into the crust, the homesteaders began to destroy the foundations of their new life, and in a very few years the crust was gone--used up, scattered, blown away by the dry summer winds.

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Cities get me down. Almost as if I am underground. London is particularly bad. Cold, grey, heavy with odours and rain. It makes me long for the south. For the deserts and the blank blue sky.

Street floods are a regular nuisance in some low-lying areas of Queens like Hamilton Beach. Residents there have grown accustomed to swans and fish swimming in knee-high water in the middle of the road when the moon is full.

As the incorporation of every moment of its experience, every influence of its contextual heritage and environment, a soul is the presence of its complete past.

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon ' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

la crisis ecológica inevitable causada por el capitalismo y la Modernidad17

Nidoterapia (terapia del nido, cuyo nombre deriva del latín nidus, nido), que es una nueva estrategia terapéutica que se debe utilizar en trastornos de personalidad persistentes y que significa el intento de modificar el entorno, el medio sociofamiliar de un sujeto para intentar reducir al mínimo influencias negativas sobre él.

Epicureanism was devised specifically as a "salvation" philosophy, a positive way of escape from a most unpleasant social and political environment. So it became imperative, in a positive sense, for the Epicureans to imitate the perfect serenity and self-sufficiency of their own idealized gods, who were actually a psychological projection of the kind of beings they themselves wanted to be.

It's true she was a flower. But a flower that thrives in the wrong place is a weed.

Closures are a function along with a referencing environment.

One thing that often misleads people learning closures is that they think the environment in the closure must have a copy of all the variables and their values. It doesn't. In

when you send an object the worker gets a copy of it. Any changes the worker makes will not affect the object in your main page. The worker is executing in a different environment than your main page, so you have no access to objects there. The same is true of objects the worker sends you: you get a copy of them.

Now, when we have an environment that has a value for each of the free variables, we say that we've closed the function. And, when we take the function and the environment together, we say we have a closure.