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" I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late. "

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" Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? "

" I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data. "

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" Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home. "

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" The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on. "

" I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. "

William Clay Ford, Jr.

" Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. "

" Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. "

" There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet. "

Gary L. Francione

" I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change. "

" My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? "

" The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition. "

" On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs. "

" We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved. "

" We must return to nature and nature's god. "

" I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations. "

" 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. "

" As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections. "

" The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan. "

" My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. "

" I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect. "

Kiefer Sutherland

" Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements. "

" No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. "

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

" We must not risk defunding environmental conservation programs, which is why Congress should reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund to preserve our natural resources. "

" Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. "

Leonardo DiCaprio

" I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself. "

Believe In Yourself

" A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future. "

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

" Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? "

" 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. "