Quotes About Resources

A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.

Our society routinely steals from the future.

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

I made the case for public ownership in 'Another World is Possible' - a manifesto for 21st-century socialism - as it is the most rational approach for managing resources in the long-term interest of the entire community.

I saw the Blair-Mandelson regime as a coup, and I think it was a well-funded coup as well - resources obviously came from big private-sector backers. But all through that period the bulk of the rank and file party were what the party has always been, a socialist party.

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Food is politics. You know, we have one planet. And growing food is, you're using the soil of the planet.

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.

The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

As governor of Connecticut and commander-in-chief of the Connecticut National Guard, I have a solemn responsibility to ensure that the men and women who work every day to keep us safe have the support and resources they need from their elected leaders.

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

I had a very clear vision. If Indians start consuming power like the Americans, the world will run out of resources. Either you stop India from developing, or you find some alternate solution.

China is committed to work with other countries for a solution to the global challenge of energy and resources.

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.