Environment Quote by Sharan Burrow

“Climate impacts hit working people first, and with extreme weather events, changing seasons, and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the front lines.”

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As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing…

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We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

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Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.

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All business must have a social license to operate.

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It seems evident that the IMF has learned nothing from its inequality-inducing policies during the 1980s debt crises in Latin America nor from its…

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As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.

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Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

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Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

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The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the…

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Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.

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Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act.

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A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.

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I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

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This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

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In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

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They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem…

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Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

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To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

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Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

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If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a…

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