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Lester R. Brown has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
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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.…
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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
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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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Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which…
— Herman E. Daly
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
— Lester R. Brown
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The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.
— Unknown Author
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I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies,…
— Greg Walden
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Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to…
— Eileen Claussen
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Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society
— Dave Hampton
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There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries…
— Peter Garrett
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Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices,…
— Paul Hawken
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Historically, the United States has had a wonderful energy policy. We're blessed with a diversity of resources. We have oil. We have…
— John S. Watson
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Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going…
— Bill Gates
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First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear…
— Mitt Romney
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