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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Quotes by Maurice Strong

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Quotes by Maurice Strong

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

Quotes by Maurice Strong

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

Quotes by Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Quotes by Maurice Strong

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

Quotes by Maurice Strong

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

Quotes by Matthew Yglesias

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

Quotes by Matt Gonzalez

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

Quotes by Martin Heinrich

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in...

Quotes by Marsha Blackburn

I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.

Quotes by Marshall Curry

I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there's something I want...

Quotes by Marshall Curry

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.

Quotes by Mark Walport

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Quotes by Margaret Mead

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Quotes by Margaret Mead

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

Quotes by Marcus Brigstocke

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Quotes by Majora Carter

Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Quotes by Majora Carter

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

Quotes by Majora Carter

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about women being the first victims of environmental degradation?
Yes: "In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families."
Is there a quote about weighing environmental awareness against other responsibilities?
Yes, one wonders aloud whether it's their responsibility to spread "a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don't be racist or whatever" - a candid, informal reflection on which causes to speak up for.
Is there a quote criticizing a U.S. president's environmental record?
Yes, one calls the issue likely to loom large in the 2008 U.S. election "largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues." This is presented as that speaker's own political opinion, not a fact this page verifies.
Is there a quote from someone describing themselves as an environmental campaigner?
Yes: "Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political." It comes from someone describing their own history as an environmental campaigner since leaving school in the early '90s.
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