Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.
We don’t think it is fair for these environmental groups to be beating up Belize over this little dam when their own countries have so many of them. Now they are trying to tell us we can’t have one.
Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.
We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they’re seldom enforced.
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it’s not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It’s really just common sense.
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn’t bad… We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.
Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
If every country’s climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.
I’ve been a philanthropist for all my life, and… I’ve had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.
You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.
The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the ‘Don’t Buy This Jacket’ campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space.
Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
I don’t want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I’m really different. I have different issues. I’m more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.
We don’t value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems.
There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories – I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
