Quotes About Environment

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.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

At this time of year, when the temperature drops, I wear non-slip shoes, a woolen scarf and a permanent frown. Forget about global warming. As I get older the world gets colder. That's a fact.

Food is about community. It's about the earth and really taking care of the earth.

As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the context has a genetic basis. . . . In essence, the Baldwin effect is the evolution of the ability to respond optimally to a particular environment. Thus, genes for plasticity evolve, rather than genes for a particular phenotypic characteristic, although selection acts upon the phenotype.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.

Green's a good color.

really didn't care [about nuclear plant safety] because there are too many people in the world anyway. . . . I think that playing dirty, if you have a noble end, is fine.

the humanity of whales.

Many of the more worrying impacts of climate change are really symptoms of mismanagement and underdevelopment.

Happily, nobody saves mountain gorillas, yellow-eyed penguins, and sea turtles because they believe human civilization depends on it. We save them for a simpler reason: we love them.90

Ninety-eight percent of the blue whales killed globally after the ban in 1966 were killed by Soviet whalers," wrote a historian, "as were 92 percent of the 1,201 humpbacks killed commercially between 1967 and 1978."99

It's impossible for a person to retaliate against the government," Madden said. "But you can retaliate against the wildlife that the government is trying to protect. It is a symbolic retaliation. It's a 'Screw you' psychological retaliation.

Irrational ideas about nature repeatedly creep into the environmental sciences.

Scientists now know that corn making and using ethanol emits twice as much greenhouse gas as gasoline. Even switchgrass, long touted as more sustainable, produces 50 percent more emissions.

environmental apocalypse?

Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

environmental scientists, journalists, and activists have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

When a television reporter asked Bay Area mayors why there was so much homelessness in Bay Area cities but not in affluent communities east of the Bay Area, the Berkeley mayor answered, "I assume [it's] the fact that our cities have such robust social services and shelter, as well as just the environment, the climate, a city that is inviting and welcoming to people.

Greta Thunberg, in 2019. "I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic."20

Human civilization would have to occupy one hundred to one thousand times more space if it were to rely solely on renewables

the trouble with renewables isn't fundamentally technical—it's natural.

an important, paradoxical truth: it is only by embracing the artificial that we can save what's natural.

PETA doesn't want to talk about farming. They want to end farming. They have absolutely no idea how the world actually works.