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Quotes About Environment

The ideal symbolic site indeed for the new pyramids is, as originally at Los Alamos, the desert, for that is the ultimate environment, done over and more perfectly sterilized by the machine process, which corresponds to the ideology itself.
~ Lewis Mumford
If you ask your congressman why, he'll say "Because it's hard. It's really hard. Makes me want to go poopie." You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!
~ Lewis Niles Black
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.
~ Leonard Boswell
In terms of the Green New Deal, I support the urgency and the end goal of the Green New Deal. I would look to work with our climatologists, economists to propose my own plan and how we would meet those goals.
~ Wayne Messam
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
~ Kamala Harris
I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.
~ Jack Schlossberg
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.
~ Daniel Pauly
Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.
~ Dan Crenshaw
The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.
~ Sharan Burrow
There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.
~ Helena Norberg-Hodge
We need to take urgent action on climate change.
~ Frankie Boyle
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
~ Chief Seattle
It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.
~ Dia Mirza
In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.
~ Jeff Bezos
It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.
~ Virgil Goode
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
~ Hal Rogers
In Google data centers, our energy usage throughout the year for all our computing needs is 100 percent renewable.
~ Jeff Dean
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
~ Peter Diamandis
Greenhouse gas production, water usage and environmental issues more broadly are being mitigated by Canadian technological advances more and more each year.
~ Erin O'Toole
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
~ Ralph Nader
We have to use cars much more efficiently. We have to look at alternative technologies of cars such as biofuels or, even more importantly, electric cars.
~ Fatih Birol
God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.
~ Linda Evangelista
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
~ Issey Miyake