Andrew Tan Quotes

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

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.

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

The central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment.

If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

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.

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

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

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

India's elite wants not just cosmetic environmentalism, but a consumer-environmentalism. It wants to have good areas to go for tourism to. So it's happy to have national parks, because people can go for wildlife tourism. Or good beaches. But they don't want, and don't care about, a livelihood environmentalism.

There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

What’s been going on for years is political science, not good science in the environmental area.

We have changed our environment more quickly than we have learned how to change ourselves.

Before we start criticizing capitalism, we ought to try it. We don't factor the value of nature and its services into the market equation. Every year we use roughly $33 trillion worth of nature's services throughout the world's civilizations, and we make little or no effort to pay any of that back. We just use it. Look at the service a bee provides us, for example. A bee doesn't charge hourly fees or anything else. But if we lose the bees, we're not going to eat. And the pollinators are disappearing.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.