#environmental

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

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun! ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#fun #i #people #show #show people

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#alarming #always #because #environmentalists #feared

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#capita #decrease #finite #goods #means

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#able #enter #means #mechanical #should

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

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#concept #country #day #did #earth

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#air #america #back #come #conditions

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it. ↗

— John Anderson

#design #economic #end #environmental #going