Environmental Challenges Quotes

#1. And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

Ed Rendell

#2. I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

Jeremy Grantham

#3. Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

Lisa P. Jackson

#4. People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Ed Begley Jr.

#5. We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.

Ernest Moniz

#6. We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

George W. Bush

#7. One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

Jerome Ringo

#8. Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.

Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

#9. I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Lester R. Brown

#11. We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

Thoraya Obaid

#12. I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment.

Tommy Koh

#13. A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.'

Jimmy Fallon

#14. When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.

Wilkie Collins

#15. Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

Michael Pollan

#16. The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Gabriel Marcel

#17. Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

Barack Obama

#18. Wit is cultured insolence.

Aristotle.

#19. He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.

Rick Riordan

#20. One of the beauties of B2B is that there is a finite number of customers. So the marketing costs are much different. You don't have to take out Super Bowl ads or plaster the New York subway system.

William Fung

#21. Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#22. During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.

Jessica Sanchez

#23. Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

Pope Francis

#24. I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

Jennifer Lawrence

#25. Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

William J. Clinton

#26. Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth ... is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

Tony Blair

#27. Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.

Rudolf Steiner

#28. Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Ellen Datlow

#29. Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Lisa See