#environmental

The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony. ↗

— James Taranto

#jerks #meanness #nastiness #sanctimony #the-guardian

Contact means the exchange of specific knowledge, ideas, or at least of findings, definite facts. But what if no exchange is possible? If an elephant is not a giant microbe, the ocean is not a giant brain. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environmentalism

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#able #atmosphere #fool #may #voters

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#change #climate #climate change #decades #discourse

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#believed #church #court #environmentalists #independence

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment. ↗

— Gale Norton

#environment #environmentalism #figure #greatest #greatest challenge

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? ↗

— Gale Norton

#environment #government #government regulation #heavy-handed #only

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. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#balance #behavior #consequences #environmental #hope

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#change #connected #itself #one thing #thing

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#better #decisions #environmental #faced #genome