- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every drop in the ocean counts.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout.
- Bestow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
- Codes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
- Environmental Issues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects, and the state regulators are even worse.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not risk defunding environmental conservation programs, which is why Congress should reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund to preserve our natural resources.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
- Nov 07, 2020
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.
- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been making pieces dealing with environmental issues at least since 2004; I mean, I did stuff for the Sierra Club and the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge even back in the 1990s. But somewhere a little after 2004, Hummer hits me up. I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to lead two lives... one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment... and advocating for social and environmental justice.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real environmental change depends on us. We can't wait for our leaders. We have to focus on what our own responsibilities are and how we can make the change happen.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I'm really different. I have different issues. I'm more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.
- Contaminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.
- Nov 07, 2020
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Keystone pipeline is one of those things that's sort of a political driver. And mostly, the Republicans use it to sort of embarrass the president and embarrass quite a few Democrats who feel that there's a potential for an environmental disaster.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.
- Advent
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is - when there is a new environmental challenge, how does an individual adapt? It seemed like a natural transition.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.
- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.
- Codes
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020