Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
One problem is that we are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. And that's where the greenhouse gases come from, by and large,… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
“What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and… — Nancy Zafris Copy Share Image
Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions. — Guilherme Leal Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest… — Bruno Stagno Ugarte Copy Share Image
If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would… — Moby Copy Share Image
“One tree isn’t more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd) Yeah, but every forest… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
There are so many causes. Gun control, climate change, deforestation, animal welfare, human welfare, education. Working on the big issues is noble… — Moby Copy Share Image
