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Environmentalism Quotes

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. Jon Meacham
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment. Barry Commoner
Barry Commoner quote: "Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only..."
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. Barry Commoner
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. Barry Commoner
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
Jim Clyburn quote: "Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's..."
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs. Jim Clyburn
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. Warren Christopher
Christopher Lasch quote: "Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes..."
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. Christopher Lasch
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. Jared Diamond
Frank Murkowski quote: "Pushing production out of America to nations without our..."
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. Frank Murkowski
One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways. Maurice Strong
I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together. Barry Commoner
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. Barry Commoner
I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective. Joe Barton
Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible. Erma Bombeck

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