#environmental

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

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#carbon #carbon dioxide #co2 #concern #dioxide

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#environment #environmental #environmental protection #families #happen

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#art #concern #education #embedded #firmly

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#economic #economic growth #environmental protection #go #growth

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#fanatics #form #fundamentalism #green #just