3 December 2020 Barry Commoner What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don’t go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
3 December 2020 Bill Bradley Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
3 December 2020 Paul Tsongas Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
3 December 2020 Dixie Lee Ray Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
3 December 2020 Sherwood Boehlert Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
3 December 2020 Harri Holkeri I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
3 December 2020 Frank Murkowski I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
3 December 2020 Gaylord Nelson Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn’t even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
3 December 2020 Jim Jeffords Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation’s standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world’s goods must steadily decrease.
3 December 2020 Patrick Buchanan Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell Americans don’t pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren’t sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn’t get anybody’s pulse racing.
3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn’t realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
3 December 2020 Richard Rogers The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Fallows Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
3 December 2020 Michael E. Mann Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation – not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
3 December 2020 Gaylord Nelson In the state of Wisconsin it’s mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
3 December 2020 Olympia Snowe In today’s world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate – and even thrive – in an environmentally-friendly manner.
3 December 2020 Jim Fowler I don’t think we’re going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only we’ve got to translate that into what’s in it for us.
3 December 2020 Sherwood Boehlert Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
3 December 2020 Roger Tory Peterson Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life.
3 December 2020 James Fallows There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
3 December 2020 Ted Turner I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
