WIST Quotations

Diamond, Jared -- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, “Big businesses and the environment” (2005)

Dave — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:33:12 +0000

Businesses have changed when the public came to expect and require different behavior, to reward businesses for behavior that the public wanted, and to make things difficult for businesses practising behaviors that the public didn’t want. I predict that in the future, just as in the past, changes in public attitudes will be essential for changes in businesses’ environmental practices.

Jared Diamond (b. 1937) American geographer, historian, ornithologist, author
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, “Big businesses and the environment” (2005)
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Jones, Van -- The Green Collar Economy (2008)

Dave — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:17:51 +0000

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (b. 1968) American news commentator, author, lawyer
The Green Collar Economy (2008)

Goodall, Jane -- “The Power of One,” Time Magazine (26 Aug 2002)

Dave — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:47:53 +0000

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet.

Jane Goodall (b. 1934) English primatologist and anthropologist
“The Power of One,” Time Magazine (26 Aug 2002)
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Jones, Van -- In Thomas L. Friedman, “The Green-Collar Solution,” New York Times (17 Oct 2007)

Dave — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:58:02 +0000

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will never be built.

Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (b. 1968) American news commentator, author, lawyer
In Thomas L. Friedman, “The Green-Collar Solution,” New York Times (17 Oct 2007)
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Roosevelt, Theodore -- Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas

Dave — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:55:29 +0000

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us, and training them into a better race to inhabit the land and pass it on. Conservation is a great moral issue for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas
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Berry, Wendell -- The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, ch. 1 (1977)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only hope.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, ch. 1 (1977)
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