#environment

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#choose #economic #environmental #every #gain

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#assume #becoming #been #better #efficient

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. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#broad #conservative #country #environmental #environmental problems

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. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#capital #depend #down #heading #human

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#appropriate #craftsman #cultivate #does #environment

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#environment #foreign #guys #home #home life

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#aware #check #checking #child #child abuse

Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?' Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#environmentalism

In 1995 Bank of America issued a famous report on sprawl in California. The bank pronounced: 'Urban job centers have decentralized to the suburbs. New housing tracts have moved even deeper into agriculturally and environmentally sensitive areas. Private auto use continues to rise. This acceleration of sprawl has surfaced enormous social, environmental, and economic costs, which until now have been hidden, ignored, or quietly borne by society. ↗

— Dolores Hayden

#environmentalism

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#build #determine #environment #important #needs