Edward Burtynsky Quotes

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working or investment?

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

Society can address the environment’s problems only if it regains some control over the flow of investments.

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.

We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

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

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Firms have traditionally ignored the carrot of environmental technology until they felt the stick of environmental enforcement.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

We must subject the machine—technology—to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

They go together, a strong environment and a strong economy. In Florida the environment is the economy.

I don't hang with polluters; I prosecute them.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.