Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. ”

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. ”

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. ”

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ”

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. ”

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ”

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. ”

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ”

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die. ”

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. ”