There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is… — Maneka Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they… — Suzy Shuster Copy Share Image
Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships, and resources are all gifts from God that he has entrusted to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting;… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
We recognise the link between environmental failure and social injustice. When the energy sector is privatised and deregulated, it not only tends… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services.… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal,… — David Pratt Copy Share Image
In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
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