- Need
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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
- Basic Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.
- Disclosure
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to protecting workers, labour conditions, labour legislation, the rights for collective bargaining, when you look at our environmental standards, when you look at our public disclosure laws and accountability and securities regulations to ensure that companies abide by the law, we don't have a level playing field with China.
- Citizenry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.
- Environmental Issues
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend them.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the leader of an oil-producing nation, I know how hard it can be to prioritize environmental issues, but the short-term risk to our economic security is far outweighed by the potential risk to our national and regional security.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
- Fuel Cells
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- Nov 07, 2020