3 December 2020 Howard Gardner I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
3 December 2020 Cathy McMorris Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn’t long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we’ve got in this country.
3 December 2020 Bernard Sanders I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
3 December 2020 Jay Inslee We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
3 December 2020 Godfrey Reggio So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
3 December 2020 Frank Murkowski Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
3 December 2020 Gaylord Nelson The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
3 December 2020 Brian Mulroney We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
3 December 2020 Matt Gonzalez A fascinating challenge facing today’s environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.
