Environmental Problems Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
— David Attenborough
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Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest…
— Leo Kadanoff
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I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry;…
— George M. Keller
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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
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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
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An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida…
— Robert D Bullard
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have…
— Wendell Berry
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We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years
— Hiroyuki Watanabe
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Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
— Edmund Hillary
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To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But…
— Van Jones
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There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties,…
— Preston Manning
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Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we…
— David Foreman
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Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.
— Stewart Brand
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We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.
— Denis Hayes
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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic…
— Cyril Connolly
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Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems…
— John Holdren
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Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.
— John McCain
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I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental…
— Jairam Ramesh
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Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the…
— James Lovelock
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There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
— James Fallows
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