#environmental

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #environmental




Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth. Species adjust or go extinct, and both have happened. For life-forms with our kinds of cells—eukaryotic, the kind with distinct organelles—the average existence of a species is about 1 million years, and, on average, one species goes extinct a year, at least of the species we have named and know, including those we know only from fossil records." -Dan Botkin, excerpt from THE MOON IN THE NAUTILUS SHELL. Read the full excerpt from Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...


Daniel Botkin


#environmental-conservation #extinction #change

We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its own form and purpose. We bring the thunderbolt of meaning and significance to unconscious matter, blank paper, the night sky. We are already divine magicians, already supergods. Why shouldn't we use all our brilliance to leap in as many single bounds as it takes to a world beyond ours, threatened by overpopulation, mass species extinction, environmental degradation, hunger, and exploitation? Superman and his pals would figure a way out of any stupid cul-de-sac we could find ourselves in - and we made Superman, after all. All it takes is that one magic word.


Grant Morrison


#extinction #overpopulation #superman #intelligence

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

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.


Jeremy Rifkin


#country #cultural #culture #deep #dimension

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.


Olympia Snowe


#business #even #longer #manner #operate

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.


John Sununu


#behind #benefit #broadband #business #concepts