Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.
You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, "Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior. "
We are the environment.
Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.
In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs. . . But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.
Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
You have established the earth and it continues. All things stand this day according to your directions. For all things are your servants (Ps. 119:91). God himself loves the earth dearly and never takes his hands off it. And because he loves it and it is good, our care of it is also eternal work and a part of our eternal life.
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad. . . We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.
Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.