Environmental Responsibility Quotes

• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational   Nature   Cancer  

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

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  Mike Huckabee

  Responsibility   Environmental   Important  

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.

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  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility   Environmental   Behavior  

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

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  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility   Issues   Environmental  

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

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  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational   Responsibility   Environmental  

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• A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

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  Antoine Predock

  Responsibility   Animal   Thinking  

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• As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a sustainable economy and recognition of the accountability we have to the economies, environments, and communities where we do business around the world.

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  John F. Smith, Jr.

  Inspiring   Responsibility   Community  

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• Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.

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  John Stott

  Christian   Responsibility   People  

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• Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.

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  Andrew Linzey

  Nature   Responsibility   Men  

  Andrew Linzey (1976). “Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals”, SCM Press

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• You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

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  William Ruckelshaus

  Country   Responsibility   Air  

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