#environmental

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. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#being #cleaner #create #decades #environment

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#health #infrastructure #linking #mental health #public

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#diseases #doubt #environmentally #future #no doubt

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. ↗

— Danny Glover

#angeles #capacity #central #environment #environmental

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#bottom line #buy #cared #company #concerns

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. ↗

— Al Gore

#come #cost #down #energy #i

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally. ↗

— Al Gore

#car #cars #consider #environmentally #get

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. ↗

— Al Gore

#economic #economic growth #educational #environmental #environmental protection

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ↗

— Al Gore

#challenge #emergency #faces #i #imagination