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Quotes About Environmental

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.
~ Ramez Naam
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.
~ Michael Stipe
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.
~ Unknown
We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
~ Denis Hayes
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
~ William J. Clinton
The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.
~ Helene D. Gayle
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.
~ Helene D. Gayle
California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states do not.
~ James M Strock
We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.
~ Bob Walker
Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.
~ Tony Abbott
I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.
~ Karin Slaughter
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.
~ Jamshyd Godrej
I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.
~ Jill Stein
Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.
~ Noam Chomsky
There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
~ Maggie Q
A few people -and a few chimpanzees- are just frankly antisocial. Presumably, such cases are the result of something going grievously wrong in a brain that has been built by a particular combination of genes and then submitted to a particular set of environmental pressures, so that it places almost everyone in an outgroup. When such individuals act alone, they are antisocial. But when they gain control over groups or even whole nations, they join the ranks of history's greatest villains.
~ Malcolm Potts
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
~ Mandy Patinkin
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.
~ Irene Rosenfeld
I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.
~ Naomi Klein
Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood.
~ Unknown