Denis Hayes Quotes

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• Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
• I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
• America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have…
• By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of…
• The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.
• An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of…
• It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
• We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.
• We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't…
• These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,
• We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more…
• There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,
• The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president has to forget…
• When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event…
• We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
• There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.
• Make Earth Day Every Day.” While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder…
• Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000…
• When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
• Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw --…

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