#environment

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#crisis #environmental #global #only #problem

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#about #after #ago #assault #began

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#environmental #improvements #last #nation #over

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#cure #difficult #enemy #environmental #environmental problems

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. ↗

— Jack Vance

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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. ↗

— Ted Danson

#disasters #environmental #environmental movement #gradual #like

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. ↗

— Ted Danson

#company #environmental #get #get together #here

I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am. ↗

— Howard Dean

#committed #curious #deeply #environment #i

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#book #decided #doing #environmental #find

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#dismantle #elections #enough #environmental #every