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Quotes About Environment

Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge.
~ Kevin de Leon
I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.
~ Lynn Good
We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light?
~ Rogier van der Heide
The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.
~ Michael Franti
China is committed to work with other countries for a solution to the global challenge of energy and resources.
~ Li Keqiang
I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.
~ Ma Jun
I'm very happy about 'Last Call At The Oasis.' I hope it's a wake up call... we caused the problem, but we can be the solution.
~ Erin Brockovich
They are very different in terms of the solution. Where 'An Inconvenient Truth,' you really need countries to cooperate and sacrifice and figure out a solution, with 'Fed Up' you can leave the theater and you can be empowered that very night by cooking dinner in your very own kitchen.
~ Laurie David
We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.
~ Daryl Hannah
Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.
~ Mark V. Hurd
We will continue to look for innovative solutions to combat the climate crisis, grow our economy, and leave behind a healthier world for our children.
~ Sharice Davids
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
~ Maurice Strong
I have acknowledged the problem and have spent my time in Congress focusing on solutions - including developing clean and efficient energy that grows our economy and creates jobs while also lowering pollution levels and protecting the environment.
~ Rob Portman
As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.
~ Annalee Newitz
You have to recognize what the markets are doing, what the rules and regulations are doing, and all the more reasons that we've got to find some more solutions in particular with coal.
~ Matt Mead
Norway has had a carbon tax in place for a long time. This has not slowed down industrial development. Rather, it has encouraged innovation and the development of solutions that reduce emissions and bring down operating costs.
~ Erna Solberg
Things that work in New York or New Delhi do not work in the mountains. We have to find our own solutions for our problems.
~ Sonam Wangchuk
On everything from climate change to the housing crisis, we need solutions that are credible, bold and radical.
~ Clive Lewis
We see incredible opportunity to solve some of the biggest social challenges we have by combining high-performance computing and AI - such as climate change and more.
~ Lisa Su
There is this notion that is quite popular in the environmental scene that every little bit helps, or 'Think global, act local.' I disagree with that. I think you have to start with how big the solution needs to be to solve the problem and then reason backward from there.
~ Boyan Slat
You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.
~ Tom Brokaw
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
~ Lois Capps
There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.
~ Sarah Polley
The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.
~ Hugo Chavez