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"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
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"In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."
"Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature."
"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."
"A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet."
"I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment."
"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways."
"It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere."
"Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities."
"Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal."
"Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
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"Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies."
"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
"Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors."
"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."
"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
"Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them."
"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."
"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins."
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