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" If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and political system. "
Jacque Fresco
Will
Political
Environmental
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" Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system. "
Richard Lamm
Dying
Water
Pressure
" EPA's role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land - the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process. "
Scott Pruitt
Process
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Environmental
" Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe. "
Dan Lipinski
Energy
Great
Future
" A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. "
Donella Meadows
President
Help
Environmental
" People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. "
Michael Pollan
Slow
Food
Environmental
" Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. "
Muhammad Yunus
Environmental
Goodbye
Moon
" Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. "
Ban Ki-moon
Environmental
Future
Growth
" I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues. "
Mackenzie Crook
Outdoors
World
Natural
" Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome. "
Sherwood Boehlert
I Am
Start
Me
" When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. "
John Muir
Out
Try
Universe
" I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. "
Paul Watson
Environmental
I Am
Me
" Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development. "
Torsten Wiesel
Environmental
Experience
Life
" One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.' "
Mike Love
Environmental
Act
Think
" The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable. "
Wendy Davis
Environmental
Health
Safety
" In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements. "
Nina Easton
Democrats
Plan
Labor
" Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry. "
Bill Richardson
Policy
Environmental
Science
" Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there. "
David James Duncan
Head
Compromise
Environmental
" It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection. "
Robert Zubrin
View
Point Of View
EPA
" Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat. "
Michael Pollan
Environmental
Problems
Change
" We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. "
Anna Freud
Space
Trees
Forest
" We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in. "
Gale Anne Hurd
Than
More
Home
" Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. "
Garrett Hardin
Impact
Environmental
Power
" Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival. "
Jacque Fresco
Earth
Survival
Practice
" When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation. "
Ma Jun
Technology
Money
Look
" The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage. "
Klaus Schwab
Environmental
World
People
" One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways. "
Maurice Strong
Thought
Environmental
Measure
" In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources. "
Victor Ponta
Environmental
Respect
Society
" It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills. "
Douglas Brinkley
Water
Great
Air
" Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles suggests that life could potentially take hold on worlds other than our own. "
Nick Sagan
Environmental
Thought
Own
" We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising. "
Zac Goldsmith
Green
People
Environmental