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" As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey, I have witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand. "

Christine Todd Whitman

Impact

Change

Environmental

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" The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me. "

" We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.' "

" 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. "

" All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards. "

" It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. "

David R. Brower

Mankind

Environmental

" Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. "

" We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in. "

Gale Anne Hurd

Than

Home

" From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation. "

" 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. "

" When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation. "

" 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. "

" We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. "

" I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president. "

" If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber mills up and running, reduce the risk of wildfires, and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air. "

" There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities. "

" Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing. "

" What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed. "

" Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development. "

" It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource. "

John Anderson

Chance

Better

" Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty. "

" 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. "

" The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced. "

" Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. "

" No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. "

" These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. "

" Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard. "

" Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. "

Sherwood Boehlert

New

Create

" One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.' "

" I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read. "

" Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have. "