Problem Quotes
11076 quotes by 6223 authors
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Someday, our children, and our children's children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could…
— Barack Obama
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The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.
— Barack Obama
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of…
— Pope John Paul II
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Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
— Rupert Murdoch
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Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
— Michael Shermer
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Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the…
— Jean Ziegler
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act…
— Greg Nickels
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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".
— W. Edwards Deming
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It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....
— Frederick Seitz
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Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes…
— Chris Huhne
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Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the…
— Chris Rapley
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What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted.…
— William J. Clinton
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A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do…
— John Beddington
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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
— David Attenborough
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a…
— John Hodgman
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