"Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong,……" — George Monbiot
"Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally."
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30 Quotes by George Monbiot
George Monbiot has 30 quotes on this site.
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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon…
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his…
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Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the…
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for…
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When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs…
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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some…
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and…
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Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
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If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or…
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The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on…
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The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of…
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Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would…
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.…
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I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it…
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes…
— William S. Burroughs
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Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up…
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
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