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" Ultimately, auto designers need to overcome market challenges with innovative design solutions. The automotive industry is at a turning point with environmental and economic conditions on one side and breakthrough technology on the other, so it will be fascinating to see how these design leaders envision the future. "

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" All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people. "

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" 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. "

" What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation. "

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

David R. Brower

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" The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development. "

" Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life. "

" 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. "

" Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes. "

" There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. "

" 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. "

" We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida. "

" Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. "

" I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment. "

" Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. "

" There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out. "

" 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. "

" People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature. "

" 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. "

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

" Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. "

" What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal. "

" 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. "

" Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. "

" The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress. "

" Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion. "

" Foreign relations should involve human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection. "

" If the U.S. fails to set the rules for global trade, then other countries with records of environmental and labor abuses, like China, will step in to fill the void. "

" I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us. "

" Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that gave us women's rights, that gave us environmental protections and political access. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Justice

Women

" When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! "

Dennis Weaver

Environment

Environmental