Environmental Economy Quotes

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.

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

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

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics!

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

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

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

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

We can't green the economy without the power of the free-market system.

Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.

Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.

The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.