Environmentalism Quotes - Page 4

• We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

  Kesha Rogers

  Growth, Environmental, Insane

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• The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "Are you an environmentalist or not?" The question doesn't make any sense.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Change, Nature, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Views, Effort

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• They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.

  Karl Pilkington

  Ocean, Simple, Sea

  "3 Minute Wonder", Episode 4, www.pilkipedia.co.uk. August 17, 2006.

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