Quotes About Environment

Man might be defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature

Remember this rule," advises Kahneman: "Intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

One of the riskiest nations on that list is the United States, where our actions threaten 14 percent of 8,812 assessed plants and animals with extinction and 283 species (3 percent) are known to have gone extinct.

Indeed, Brand's thinking has evolved in many ways—from anti- to pronuclear, from environmentalism to conservationism, and from libertarianism to something closer to traditional liberalism.

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.

However, lowering transaction costs is a task not only for entrepreneurs, but also for public policy. The government has the responsibility to establish and maintain an environment within which markets can work efficiently. (I will refer to this aspect of market design as formal or top-down.)

They cannot operate efficiently in a vacuum.

If geologic time could somehow be seen in the perspective of human time, on the other hand, sea level would be rising and falling hundreds of feet, ice would come pouring over continents and as quickly go away . . . continents would crawl like amoebae, rivers would arrive and disappear like rainstreaks down an umbrella, lakes would go away like puddles after rain, and volcanoes would light the earth as if it were a garden of fireflies.

Wood was the main source of energy in the world until the eighteen-fifties, and it still could be. Roughly a tenth of the annual growth of all the trees on earth could yield alcohol enough to run everything that now uses coal and petroleum—every airplane, every industry, every automobile.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.