"Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil."

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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."

Jeremy Rifkin, American Economist

Environment, Environmental, Health, Country, Culture

"You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction."

Liz Phair, American Musician

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"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."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Environment, Nature, Agriculture, Observation, Impact

"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."

Elon Musk, American Entrepreneur

Environment, Climate Change, Sustainability, Global Warming

"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."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Environment, Sustainability, Food, Action

"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."

Brian Mulroney, Canadian Statesman

Environment, Tax, Reform, Trade

"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."

Maurice Strong, Canadian Businessman

Environment, Environmental, Thought, People, Performance

"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."

Elon Musk, American Entrepreneur

Environment, Coal, Energy, Sustainability

"Do all to change your environment, don't allow your environment to change you."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Environment, Change, Growth, Influence

"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."

Jim Clyburn, American Politician

Environment, Environmental, Protection

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"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"

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"The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent."

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"If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake."

Automobiles

"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."

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"It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own."

Fun

"It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone."

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"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."

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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."

"You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction."

"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."

"Do all to change your environment, don't allow your environment to change you."

"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."

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"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"

"The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent."

"We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders."

"Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility."

"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."

"If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake."

"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."

"It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own."

"It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone."

"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."