Quotes About Environment

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

He explained in detail how important it was to use circumstances. He said where you are is what you are, and how you are, and what you can be.

people became not just more cost conscious, but also more environmentally aware, health minded, and ethically driven.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

We're at war with nature. If we win, we're lost.

Nous menons une guerre contre la nature. Si nous la gagnons, nous sommes perdus." ??? ??? ????? ?? ??????? ??? ??????? ???? ??? ????

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

He maintains that the primary cause of suicide is not individual temperament but forces in the social environment. In other words, suicide is caused primarily by external factors, not internal ones.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

domesticated cows deliver more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than do all the world's vehicles—autos, trucks, trains, aircraft, ships—combined. Deforestation

wouldnt be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but once capitalism got there it would finish the planet.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

I'm getting really paranoid,' I said. 'I keep thinking, any moment, I'm going to get done for something that I didn't even know was illegal. I'm scared that if I fart too loudly I might get hanged for polluting the environment.

The greatest gift this generation can give future generations is a HEALTHY PLANET.

The greatest threat to climate change is humanity' Iain Cameron Williams, 2019

A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.

Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.

We know that something went wrong in the country after World War II, for most of our serious pollution problems either began in the postwar years or have greatly worsened since then. —BARRY COMMONER

Stage 1: The Industrial Era, from the early 1800s to 1945, when atmospheric CO2 exceeded the upper limit of Holocene variation; and Stage 2: The Great Acceleration, from 1945 to the present, "when the most rapid and pervasive shift in the human-environment relationship began." (They also—over-optimistically, I'd say—predicted that a third stage, "Stewards of the Earth," would begin in 2015.)

Where capital goes, emissions will immediately follow…. The stronger global capital has become the more rampant the growth of CO2 emissions.

A particularly frightening observation: even if emission levels are reduced, by 2070 Earth will be the hottest it has been in 125,000 years, which means it will be "hotter than it has been for most, if not all, of the time since modern humans emerged as a species 200,000 years ago.