- Ethnic
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- 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
- Economic Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.
- Disciplines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020