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"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."
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"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."
"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."
"If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss."
"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."
"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."
"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."
"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"
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"Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago."
"The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around."
"In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school."
"We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious."
"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power."
"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."
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