Quotes About Environment

Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

The two principal parks in Alaska are Denali and Glacier Bay. Tourism is just overriding the protection of resources that tourists want to see. We have too many tourists in Denali and too many big cruise ships in Glacier Bay.

Our government has this three-city concept where Tirupati will be a city of lakes and a tourist destination, Amaravati a blue-green city, and Visakhapatnam a beautiful city buzzing with economic activity and jobs.

Without global action on climate change, Bhutan's tourist and agricultural-based economy faces an acute threat from climate change.

The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

I would love to get solar panels installed to help us work towards generating our own energy supply.

In the 19th and 20th centuries we saw nature as something to use to our profit, but the attitude of man towards nature in the 21st century will be a bit different.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

There's no miracle formula but we have to move towards a lower carbon economy. We don't have any other choice.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

Beijing has shown how to tackle air pollution by using smog towers.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects, and the state regulators are even worse.

The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.

The few pounds we spend for an item of clothing isn't the true cost - the real cost is the millions of gallons of clean water that was used to grow the fabric, or the millions of gallons of fresh water that was polluted with toxic chemicals to dye the clothes.

I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of cooking.