Environmental Quotes

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I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how… — Jonathon Porritt
Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing… — Tony Blair
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and… — Maurice Strong
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. — Maude Barlow
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make… — Oren Lyons
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!… — Holly Near
We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should… — Meg Whitman
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. — Galen Rowell
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — John Dewey
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and… — Ralph Nader
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. — John McCain
Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind. — Barack Obama
No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality… — Unknown Author
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms… — Tim Wirth
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance. — Lester R. Brown
The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is… — Dixie Lee Ray
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the… — Margot Wallstrom

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