"They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards……" — Lester R. Brown
"They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China."
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24 Quotes by Lester R. Brown
Lester R. Brown has 24 quotes on this site.
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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe.…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will…
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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…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort…
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and…
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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…
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One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for…
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his…
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing…
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a…
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to…
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in…
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in…
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and…
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