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" A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. "
Donella Meadows
President
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Environmental
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" By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. "
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" In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school. "
Gaylord Nelson
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" I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. "
Pat Buckley
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" 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. "
Michael Pollan
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" On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. "
Clive Anderson
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" You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father. "
Pierce Brosnan
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" But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. "
Sigmar Gabriel
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" I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. "
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" As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, I'm committed to finding consensus on legislation to address our environmental and energy challenges. "
Elise Stefanik
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" With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics. "
David Maisel
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" I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. "
Jay Inslee
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Air
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" I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. "
Jeff Bingaman
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" There are several issues why we are opposed to bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency region, like environmental pollution, threat to rivers, and tourism. "
Kishore Chandra Deo
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Why
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" Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that gave us women's rights, that gave us environmental protections and political access. "
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Us
" With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without. "
Jacque Fresco
Technology
Science
Knowledge
" I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy. "
Joe Barton
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" Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge. "
Frances Beinecke
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Long
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" We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons. "
Donella Meadows
Stop
Speak
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" Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. "
Victoria Principal
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Keep
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" If we're going to pass international trade agreements, as we should, they should have similar kind of rules, not as high a wage as obviously as a steelworker in the U.S. or in Lorain, Ohio, but certainly rules on the environment and worker safety. You go to Mexico, you don't see those kinds of worker protections or environmental safeguards. "
Sherrod Brown
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" A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan. "
Peter Heller
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" Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park. "
Donella Meadows
Almost
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" We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible. "
Ma Jun
Laws
Weak
Impossible
" From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill. "
Robert Zubrin
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" We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. "
Jay Inslee
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" Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. "
Jim Jeffords
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Day
Father
" There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. "
Noam Chomsky
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Problems
War
" Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these costs. "
Seth Moulton
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Costs
" I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues. "
Julian Lennon
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" Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. "
Muhammad Yunus
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