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This book was written using 100% recycled words.
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humor
environmentalism
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Terry Pratchett |
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We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor
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earth
science
inspirational
environmentalism
conservation
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Moss Cass |
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Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?
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nature
environmentalism
geology
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
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people
environmentalists
logistics
environmentalism
practicality
realism
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David Brin |
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Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
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environmentalism
green
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Yvon Chouinard |
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All must pay the debt of nature.
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nature
environmentalism
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Annie Proulx |
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We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
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motivational
environmentalism
environment
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Russell Banks |
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Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
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environmentalism
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Eugene Linden |
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People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience... but we'd be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives... because we didn't like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get rid of it? Would we have environmentalists still complaining and protesting and trying to get rid of all pollution?
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earth
people
human
death
hope
life
hippie
litter
plants
smog
environmentalism
garbage
environment
canada
pollution
animals
help
scary
water
dangerous
mental-illness
evil
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Rebecca McNutt |
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"The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. "Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well," he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. "You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it's a disease. We have university students protesting every few weeks or so... strangely enough, the ones who have parents who rely on that steel mill to pay the bills." "What about the pollution?" Wendy questioned, almost accusingly, as if it was his fault. "What if dangerous chemicals are in the environment?" "Hey kid, I don't even work at the mill, never have, but my father, my uncle, their father, cousins, all worked there," the prints shop man argued, placing the newspapers in a cardboard box and taping it shut. "When it comes down to all that 'go green' crap, you have to ask yourself, is it worth risking a person's income, their job, their family... their life? I'm not saying you're wrong, but these newspapers might have a point."
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earth
earth-day
go-green
industry-decline
manager
print
recycle
hippie
smog
newspaper
environmentalism
shop
career
green
pollution
job
nostalgia
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Rebecca McNutt |
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Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill's due. Today.
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environmentalism
end-of-the-world
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David Mitchell |
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There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destruction of an ancient forest on the grounds that it will earn us substantial export income is problematic, even if we could invest that income and increase its value from year to year; for no matter how much we increase its value, its could never buy back the link with the past represented by the forest.
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environmentalism
moral-philosophy
ethics
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Peter Singer |
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Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conceivably may not be interested in such architectural treasures, so we should preserve wilderness even though it is possible that future generations will care little for it.
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environmentalism
moral-philosophy
ethics
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Peter Singer |
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For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.
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environmentalism
environment
cooking
home
kitchen
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Michael Pollan |