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There are two problems for our species survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we are hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

I have used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I have still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it is for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there is a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it is really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we do not subsidize, we do not want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

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.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can not come in closer with the 35 mm.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can not spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.