3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
3 December 2020 Brian Mulroney I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
3 December 2020 Robert Collier People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves.
3 December 2020 Joe Barton I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
3 December 2020 Al Gore I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
3 December 2020 Peter DeFazio Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital – the resource systems upon which we depend to live – instead of our human capital.
3 December 2020 David Suzuki Over and over, we hear politicians say they can’t spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
3 December 2020 Ansel Adams It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
3 December 2020 Samuel Wilson One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
3 December 2020 Paul Hawken I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.
3 December 2020 Victoria Principal Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
3 December 2020 Dixie Lee Ray The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
3 December 2020 William Bartram If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
3 December 2020 David R. Brower It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
3 December 2020 Sherwood Boehlert Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
3 December 2020 Wangari Maathai 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.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
3 December 2020 Danny Glover If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
3 December 2020 Isaac Bashevis Singer I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
3 December 2020 Luther Burbank I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Cope There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That’s considerable in a country that’s used to being protected.
3 December 2020 John Sununu Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
