#environmentalism

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

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I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth. ↗

— James Lovelock

#change

One planet, one experiment. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

#science #experience

Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we know of in a forbidding universe. We all depend on it to live and we are compelled to share it; it is our only home... the earth's biosphere seems almost magically suited to human beings and indeed it is, for we evolved through eons of intimate immersion within it. We cannot live long or well without a functioning biosphere, and so it is worth everything we have. ↗

— Joseph Guth

#conservation #earth #ecology #environment #environmentalism

…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#ignorance #education

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#central #conservation #environmentalism #innovation #makes

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#fanatics #form #fundamentalism #green #just

Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#because #environmentalism #happens #left #right

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion. ↗

— Peter Thiel

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