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" I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF. "

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" Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. "

" I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues. "

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

" A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. "

" One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. "

" 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. "

Chellie Pingree

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

" I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions. "

" A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. "

Lionel Trilling

" Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. "

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" 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? "

" 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. "

" I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. "

" Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. "

" There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. "

" Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax. "

Robert F. Engle

" But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it. "

" If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot. "

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

" There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions. "

" As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways. "

" When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films. "

" Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. "

" I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. "

" The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse. "

" 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. "

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

" I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film. "