My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
Bruce Sterling
GreatEnvironmentalStoryYouGo
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.
Alexandra Paul
CarEnvironmentalEnvironmentSaid
I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.
Antoine Predock
EnvironmentalPlaceUnderstandTry
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
Will Steger
DogWaterTravelTeamEnvironmental
As the leader of an oil-producing nation, I know how hard it can be to prioritize environmental issues, but the short-term risk to our economic security is far outweighed by the potential risk to our national and regional security.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
LeaderEnvironmentalPotentialKnow
Trans issues are also environmental issues. They're also healthcare issues. They're also national security issues.
Sarah McBride
EnvironmentalSecurityHealthcare
EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
AdventureEnvironmentalYouthWorld
It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.
Rebecca MacKinnon
EnvironmentalGenerationLabourThem
The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects, and the state regulators are even worse.
Suzy Shuster
EnvironmentalEvidenceUpProtection
The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.
Paul Polman
ChangeFoodEnvironmentalChallenges
Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
Peter DeFazio
EnvironmentalAmericaOilCompany
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
Jim Fowler
EnvironmentalPlantsThinkTalking
The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
Naveen Jain
FocusEnvironmentalChallengesFace
I have a huge fan following in Bellary, and when they met me, they told me about their problems. I have seen mining done without proper safety measures and not taking environmental protection into account.
Pawan Kalyan
MeSafetyEnvironmentalProblemsFan
Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.
Jochen Zeitz
MoneyEnvironmentalMuseumEurope
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
Jacqueline Novogratz
HistoryEnvironmentalWorldPotential
As congressional Republicans and the Trump administration continue to attack the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it came as no surprise that the House voted on two bills that would weaken emissions standards and, as a result, put our public health at risk.
Seth Moulton
HealthEnvironmentalSurpriseResult
Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.
Jerry Greenfield
BusinessMoneyCaringEnvironmental
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
Keith Ellison
EnvironmentalConstructionEngineering
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.
Scott Pruitt
EnvironmentalWorldOilResourcesUp
The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
Jeremy Grantham
DeathPeopleEnvironmentalBetter
E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.
Gene Green
HealthEnvironmentalWorldProblems
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
EnvironmentalYearsPopulationEvery
What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.
Jeremy Corbyn
EnvironmentalGoImportantWorkers
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