Quotes by Environmentalists

Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health. Ma Jun
Health Own Everyone Environment Between Knows Link
In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs. Ma Jun
Environmental You Job Complain Job Losses Carry About Costs Because Losses America China Here
Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance. Ma Jun
Balance Community Other Else Side Everyone Everyone Else Some Economic Join Economic Growth Environment Development Check Often Expense Happens Which Interest Growth Need
We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible. Ma Jun
Environmental Impossible Weak Laws Remains Countries Still Western Western Countries Quite Litigation Enforcement Regulations Near Copied
Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive. Ma Jun
First Other Some More Had Since Brands Report Proactive Turning Ever Published Apple
Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here. Ma Jun
Environmental Problems Resolved Other Other Countries Way Solved Per Environmental Problems Countries Court Heard Happen Cent Cannot Here
I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete. Ma Jun
Government Made Every Rules Tell Comply Firm Mean Them Should Compete
On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs. Ma Jun
Environmental Nature Heavy Metal April Jobs Institute Steve Steve Jobs Metal Affairs Questioned Friends Green Heavy Pollution Chinese Public Sent CEO Organizations Including Letter
What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law. Ma Jun
Law Protection Pressure Aim Through Environment Bureau Public Enforce Help
Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution? Ma Jun
You Commitment Responsibility Made Consider Suppliers How Green Pollution Fulfill Your Company Apple
China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target. Ma Jun
Meet Percentage Output Points Share Between Industries Domestic Target Heavy Pollution China Cut Cuts Should Gross
Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution. Ma Jun
Law Control Pay Obeying Fines Cost Failings Than Pollution Happier Breaking Mean Far Regulatory Businesses Below
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. Ma Jun
Environmental Alone Government Will Changes Citizens Solved About Given Join Allow Environment New Concerned Within Affected May Which China Plan Communities Mechanisms Needed
At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure. Ma Jun
Government Day End Of The Day Pressure Local Local Government Bow End Public
The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean. Ma Jun
Water Drinking Important Situation Difficult Costly Clean Drinking Water Contaminated Source Very Gets Quite Use Serious Including
China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy. Ma Jun
Energy Focused Easy Restructuring Economy Industry Very Intensive Heavy Which China Much Coal Carbon
To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue. Ma Jun
Long Local Put Deal Issue Been Pollution Which China Sensitive Agenda Coal
We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment. Ma Jun
People World Pressure Own Extra Meet Our Definitely Entire Entire World Put Environment Demands Well Lot Meantime Manufacturing
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets. Ma Jun
Environmental Class Rights Better Sense Willing Take Most Middle Middle Class Urban Them Much Residents Streets
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled. Paul Hawken
Better Old Sugar Alcohol Coke Asthma Fats Additives Correlation Tried Eating Could Weeks Had Since Freely Felt Chemicals Hamburger Discovered Normal Sneak Begun American Diet Six Stopped Experimenting Breathe Body Rebelled
I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all. Paul Hawken
You Plants Soil Doubt Birds Distance Corporations Would Fact Name Know House Contend Executives Edible Within Very Chief Five Walking Any Native Where In Fact Which Much Fortune Series Homes Nowhere
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. Paul Hawken
Environmental Natural Path Depend Down Live Increasing Resource Our Systems Instead Toward Heading Human Which Capital Productivity Now
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. Paul Hawken
Business System About Industrial Looks Itself Green Transforming Connections
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting. Paul Hawken
Balance Natural Money Worth Omission Considered Perceived Seem Factor Factories Throughout Counting Exclusion Economists Industrial Principal Balance Sheets Sheets Understandable Era Contributor Etc Capital Much Production Marginal
Trees are being saved because of the Kindle. Paul Hawken
Saved Trees Kindle Because Being
We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela. Paul Hawken
Leadership Change People World King Transformation Nelson Nelson Mandela Charismatic See Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Look Terms Trained Mandela Next Organizations Gandhi Who Awaiting Luther
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