#environmental

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#carbon #carbon dioxide #co2 #concern #dioxide

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

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource. ↗

— John Anderson

#anyone #available #better #chance #create

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. ↗

— David Attenborough

#environmental #going #hope #i #i can

My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. ↗

— Van Jones

#green-job #family

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

#energy #environmental #every #friends #i

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#criminal #criminal justice #economic #economic justice #electoral

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #place #reactors #safely #store

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

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy