Quotes Tagged "environment"

When I was in third grade, we had a mandatory environmental science class. The only thing I remember from that class, was when our teacher told us, 8 year olds, that in the state of Haryana in India - where I grew up - the water table was falling by almost 2 feet every year. For me, this fact suddenly converted this abstract idea of sustainable development into a very real problem that affected communities and people I knew.

During my time in high altitude astronomy, I was never informed that I was working in an abnormal radiation environment for the sea level adapted human.

Time's up for modern society.

Why should I care if your children die from dirty water; polluted air; CFCs in the environment; plastic in everything that they ingest & breath; radiation from microwave towers, communication networks & mobile phones; radiation from nuclear fallout and artificial microbes bred for specific uses? You don't? Otherwise if you did care, you would actually get off your seats and do something. But you don't. You just sit back and let everything happen because you believe that you can't make a difference, but the truth is; everyone can make a difference if there is enough of us. It's time to put greed aside and start living with the knowledge that you can make a difference.

I would like to think that people are capable of rational thought and of living in a rational manner but there has been study after study that demonstrates that that's not likely.

Often what we see as progress in the right direction is merely the improvement of a wrong solution.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, has premiered in its Langley Theater some of the best of these films. 'To Fly' brings a catch to my throat even after five or six viewings. I've seen religious leaders of many denominations witness 'Blue Planet' and be converted on the spot to the need to protect the Earth's environment

Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

Creativity is the only energy that should never be saved.

His hand goes out, gesturing toward the conifers. It amazes me how much they say, when you let them. They're not that hard to hear. The (other) man chuckles. We've been trying to tell you that since 1492.

One of the most useful skills advocates can develop is a sincere satisfaction in changing their mind, putting the goal of effectiveness before the goal of having been correct.

You may be an expert in environmental protection policy, but when it comes to science, you're an amateur. How much do you actually know about undersea resource development? If you truly want to come up with a solution that allows both, you'll need to have the same amount of knowledge and experience with both. It's arrogant to think that knowing only one is sufficient. Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money.

When it comes to established environmental science, President Trump is like a bull in a china shop.

When you look into the wide range of science on environmental radiation, it is reasonable to conclude that there is an extensive corporate government conspiracy to radiation poison the global population.

Knowledge generates interest, and interest generates compassion.