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Environmental Quotes
On awareness, activism, and the politics neither can escape.
One quote points to women in Kenya walking for hours to find water and firewood as the first to feel environmental degradation, grounding the topic in daily life rather than policy debate. For related themes, see our Earth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey, I have witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.
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I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.
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Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fortunate to be in a position to support nonprofits that align with my personal priorities, which include women's health issues, cancer research, environmental concerns, and education for women and children domestically and globally.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
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- Nov 07, 2020