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" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "
Margaret Mead
Society
Environmental
Environment
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" 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. "
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" Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. "
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" In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. "
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" I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. "
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" I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well. "
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" It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. "
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" There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth. "
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" If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. "
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