Quotes About Environment

You have got to have social justice to have climate justice.

One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.

Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be.

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.

Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies.

The Paris Agreement is, in fact, a historic one because it marks the culmination of a phase of very long, drawn-out negotiations involving more than 190 countries. Why is it historic? Because it shows the way for our societies to change from the ground up, to create an economy that only depends on fossil fuels to a very slight degree.

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights!

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

Through food, Ive become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.