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" Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. "
Al Gore
Challenge
Environmental
Imagination
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" So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. "
Godfrey Reggio
Justice
Peace
Environmental
" The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the 'Don't Buy This Jacket' campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space. "
DeRay Mckesson
Space
Justice
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 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. "
E. O. Wilson
Behavior
Growth
Search
" 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. "
Suzan DelBene
Support
Environmental
Said
" California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction. "
Ed Begley, Jr.
California
Environmental
Way
" 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
Earth
Day
Some
" All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business, or a rogue individual, can do. Insider trading, environmental damage, human-rights violations, and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact. "
Punit Renjen
Good
World
Work
" It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit. "
Charles Saatchi
Future
Nature
Good
" Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. "
James Lovelock
Desert
Forest
Create
" Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together. "
Henry Paulson
More
Environmental
Together
" All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. "
David Attenborough
Hope
Say
I Can
" You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. "
Jacob Bronowski
Life
Environmental
End
" As congressional Republicans and the Trump administration continue to attack the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it came as no surprise that the House voted on two bills that would weaken emissions standards and, as a result, put our public health at risk. "
Seth Moulton
Result
Surprise
Environmental
" From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. "
David Suzuki
Year
Changes
Environmental
" I refuse to stand by and watch as Sen. Tester tries to implement his radical environmental agenda here and kill our coal industry and destroy thousands of Montana jobs. "
Matt Rosendale
Destroy
Environmental
Watch
" We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. "
Kurt Vonnegut
Environmental
Earth
Cheap
" We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. "
Christopher Dodd
Environmental
Protection
Hand
" We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. "
William Ralph Inge
Religion
Animal
Devil
" Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. "
G. Gordon Liddy
Environmental
Pagan
Like
" If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things. "
John S. Watson
Focus
Environmental
Best
" Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic. "
Robert Brady
New
Toxic
Environmental
" We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. "
Ted Danson
Victory
Environmental
Responsibility
" Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. "
Erich Fromm
Equality
Process
Man
" While the transition from a combustion-powered society to electrification is already underway due to market forces alone, this transition will take generations without support. But we have every incentive - environmental, economic, and yes, moral - to speed the evolution. "
Joe Kaeser
Environmental
Alone
Support
" I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years. "
Martina Navratilova
Rights
Environmental
Children
" I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections. "
Elizabeth Warren
Congress
Environmental
Only
" We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y. "
Amy Jo Martin
Environmental
Connection
Generation
" 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
" Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount. "
Klaus Lackner
Run
Impact
I Can