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Quotes About Environmental

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.
~ Richard Leakey
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
~ Samuel Mockbee
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
~ Bill Nye
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
~ Noam Chomsky
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.
~ Mike Patton
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.
~ Steven F. Hayward
There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.
~ Mary Robinson
There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.
~ Dennis Miller
Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
~ Socrates
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.
~ Lester R. Brown
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
~ Jacque Fresco
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
~ Prince Charles
By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
~ Dan Lipinski
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
~ Katherine Dunn
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
~ Richard Lugar
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
~ Marshall McLuhan
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.
~ Kshama Sawant
This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.
~ Carol Browner
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.
~ Wangari Maathai
Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility
~ Unknown
Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!
~ Janeane Garofalo
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.
~ Ronald Reagan
The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
~ William Nordhaus