- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it was funny, it had an important message.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I urge President Trump to maintain American participation in the Paris Agreement - for the sake of our international leadership, economic competitiveness, and children's environmental future.
- Solution
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is this notion that is quite popular in the environmental scene that every little bit helps, or 'Think global, act local.' I disagree with that. I think you have to start with how big the solution needs to be to solve the problem and then reason backward from there.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020