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Extraction Quotes
What comes out, and what it costs.
Extraction quotes weigh economic benefit against environmental damage, covering everything from timber harvesting near protected forests to industrial fishing methods that strip entire ecosystems. One philosophical line even applies the word to logic itself. Read related debate in our America quotes.
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- Creatures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
- Confusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flue gas extraction is really, really hard to do. It's not that we can't do it - just not at a cost that anyone will bear.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Timber extraction provides big profits at the expense of local communities. Providing communities with unfettered access to harvest a forest that is protected in perpetuity provides better and more reliable incomes.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an active promoter of increased resource extraction in Latin America, pushing both fracking and the privatization of petroleum production.
- Conveyor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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