“Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.”
— Alan Dundes
Author: Alan Dundes
Category: environmental
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“Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: environmental
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“There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.”
— Galen Rowell
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Category: environmental
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“I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.”
— Jeff Bingaman
Author: Jeff Bingaman
Category: environmental
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“I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.”
— Maurice Strong
Author: Maurice Strong
Category: environmental
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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: environmental
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“Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.”
— Joan Jett
Author: Joan Jett
Category: environmental
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“I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.”
— Mackenzie Crook
Author: Mackenzie Crook
Category: environmental
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“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”
— Bill Nye
Author: Bill Nye
Category: environmental
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“Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.”
— Cathy McMorris
Author: Cathy McMorris
Category: environmental
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“Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.”
— James Buchan
Author: James Buchan
Category: environmental
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