"When civilization stands at the edge of a……" — Denis Hayes
"When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense."
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20 Quotes by Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes has 20 quotes on this site.
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Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
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I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
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America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question…
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By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity…
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The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire…
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An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far…
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It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
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We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.
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We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our…
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These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,
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We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago,…
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There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of…
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More Civilization Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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