Environment & Environmentalism Quotes
The major reason for not yet harvesting waste is the labor, caital, and energy costs of recycling relative to the value of the resource is too high. Technology improvements and greater shortages continuously change the equation in favor of harvesting more and more resources.
Many people when they first read this quote assume that it came from some counter-culture radical. It did, but he was a President of the United States.
There were some people and corporations that wanted to open up the Grand Canyon for mining.
As global warming affects our entire planet, Plant pests and diseases travel North at a rate of 2 miles a year moving from the colder climates into the warmer ones where they now can thrive while they could not before the warming. That, in turn, changes the mix of trees and plants as well as distribution and range of many animals. The same thing happens in the Southern hemisphere only the warmer areas expand South rather than North.
This statement of the problem was so eloquent and universal that it is even used a century later. For example it was quoted by James Inhofe, on his Senate Speech, October 4, 2004.
To most inventors, scientists, and technologists, nature is a destructive force and part of their job is to insulate man from nature.
Cryptocporidium is an illness caused by parasites in drinking water. It has been known about since 1974, but when the EPA set standards for drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act, but did not include Cryptocporidium.
Yet today California is a battleground for fights over preservation of old growth forest. In the 1800s the Indians thought old growth forests bad for hunting. Yet Indians are generally thought of as being more environmentally responsible than most.
