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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…

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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all…
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations…

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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a… — Hal Borland
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to… — Robert R. McCammon
Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a… — Rodolfo Llinas
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by… — Mikhail Lomonosov
My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown
The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer — John Sculley
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment… — Rick Renzi
We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were… — David Suzuki
On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of… — Shirley MacLaine
According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of… — Unknown Author

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