Quotes About Environment

Around 40 percent of the world's agricultural land is now seriously degraded, and by 2025 two out of three people worldwide will live in water-stressed regions.

meeting the human rights of every person within the means of our life-giving planet.

Rather than presiding at the pinnacle of nature's pyramid, however, humanity is woven deep into nature's web. We are embedded in the living world, not separate from or above it: we live within the biosphere, not on the planet.

a study of all 50 U.S. States found that those states marked out by large inequalities of power in terms of income and ethnicity had weaker environmental policies and suffered greater ecological degradation. Furthermore, one study covering 50 countries found the more unequal a country is, the more likely the biodiversity of its landscape is to be under threat.

environmental quality is higher where income is more equitably distributed, where more people are literate, and civil and political rights are better respected. It's people power, not economic growth persay, that protects local air and water quality. Likewise, it is citizen pressure on government and companies for more stringent standards, not the mere increase in revenue that compels industries to switch to cleaner technologies.

we have to look back over the past 100,000 years of life on Earth. For almost all of that time—as early humans trekked out of Africa and blazed a trail across continents—Earth's average temperature spiked up and down. But during just the last 12,000 years or so, it has been warmer, and far more stable too. This recent period of Earth's history is known as the Holocene.

We would have to be crazy to kick ourselves out of the Holocene's sweet spot, but that is, of course, exactly what we have been doing.

Economic externalities are framed—thanks to their very name—as a peripheral concern in mainstream theory.

The last two centuries of extraordinary economic growth in high-income countries are largely due to the availability of cheap fossil fuels.

cleaning up a nation's air and water by shifting from manufacturing to service industries doesn't eliminate those pollutants: it sends them overseas, letting someone else, somewhere else, feel the burn while those back home can import the neatly packaged finished product.

never plastic, not even for a picnic),

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I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.

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We are concerned about the environment, but we avoid thinking very much about the gallons of clean hot water we use every day and the toxins in our cleansers that we pour down the drain. Living up to our hygienic standards takes huge amounts of energy, but cleanliness is such a sacred cow that to be told "cut down on your washing" would be even more repugnant than being urged to restrict our driving.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.

This state of affairs is not inevitable. Humans were able to employ science and law to transform common holdings into a commodity and then into capital; we also have the ability to reverse this path, transforming some of our now overabundant capital into renewed commons.

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

In our commitment to raise healthy, conscious children and create a healthy world, it is hard to understand how people can choose to spend money for something that not only does not work, but poisons humans and the environment.

la na?tere, creierul unei fiin?e umane este preg?tit s?-?i fac? treaba, dar esen?ial este ce-i d?m s? fac? ?i cu cum îl hr?nim. Un specialist ne va vorbi nu despre num?rul de neuroni, ci despre conexiunile care se creeaz? între ei.

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

The game character, like the self, is contextual.