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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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"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."
"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."
"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."
"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."
"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."
"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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