Deforestation Quotes - Page 1

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.
Martin O'malley / Governor Of Maryland
Complicated
Deforestation
Simple
Tree
Planting
Reversing
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In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.
Howard Schultz / Businessman
Coffee
Deforestation
Grown
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Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.
Heather Mills / Model
Cents
Deforestation
Eighty
Global Warming
Livestock
Cent
Global
Per
Warming
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Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
Johan Eliasch /
Burning
Cutting
Deforestation
Economic
Long
Continue
Down
Preserving
Trees
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Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.
Paul Polman / Executive
Deforestation
Large Scale
Smarter
Increasing
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The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
Jay Griffiths / Writer
Knowledge
Music
Deforestation
Medicine
Mind
Silencing
Tree
Double
Trees
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Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn't stop me from wanting to be one - to just stop feeling and live.
Emma Gonzalez /
Deforestation
Pollution
Face
Difficulties
Feeling
Trees
Wanting
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Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
Paul Hawken / Environmentalist
Men
Construction
Deforestation
Erosion
Loss
Weather
Most
Caused
Ecosystem
Floods
Result
Services
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Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.
Guilherme Leal /
Deforestation
Emissions
Promoting
Regeneration
Achieving
Effective
Ending
Mechanisms
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
Ms Dhoni /
Deforestation
Drinking
Drinking Water
Green
Happens
Importance
Water
Forest
Goes
How Much
Table
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Now that Europe has developed through deforestation and fossil fuel use it is telling Brazil not to develop through deforestation and fossil fuel use. Bolsonaro is the backlash against such hypocrisy.
Michael Shellenberger /
Backlash
Brazil
Deforestation
Europe
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Hypocrisy
Develop
Fossil
Telling
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In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.
Howard Schultz / Businessman
Cases
Coffee
Deforestation
Educate
Issues
Marketplace
People
Starbucks
Grown
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Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
Jamais Cascio /
Civilization
Creating
Cycles
Dams
Deforestation
Earth
Environment
Human Civilization
Patterns
Water
Wind
Alter
Changing
Often
Deserts
Detriment
Droughts
Millennia
Occasionally
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If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers and indigenous people, more prosperous rural economies, and above all, a more stable climate.
Paul Polman / Executive
Benefits
Climate
Deforestation
Farmers
Greater
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Livelihood
Millions
Prosperous
Right Way
Security
Stable
Above
Food People Way
Economies
Small
Improved
Rural
Tackle
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The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.
Shashi Tharoor / Author
Aids
Asia
Deforestation
Democratic
Pollution
Southeast Asia
Advances
Affect
Africa
Downstream
Observed
Southeast
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English is still the unifying language in Sarawak and I use my blog and broadcasts to expose the outrageous deforestation which has seen 95 per cent of Sarawak's rainforest cut down and replaced by logging and palm oil plantations which have enriched Taib and his family.
Clare Rewcastle Brown /
Deforestation
Outrageous
Replaced
Unifying
Palm
Blog
Cent
Enriched
Expose
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If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.
Clive Anderson / Presenter
Home
Cutting
Deforestation
Devastation
Earth
Fuel
Left
Moving
Whole
Build
Nowhere
Bring
Take
Cut
Down
High
Eventually
Look
Homes
List
Move
Move On
Trees
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The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example, is an inspiring illustration of what can be achieved when governments and industry partners come together determined to bring about transformational market-wide changes.
Paul Polman / Executive
Inspiring
Alternatives
Commitment
Deforestation
Determined
Example
Illegal
Illustration
Oil
Partners
Soy
Achieved
Palm
Commodities
Sustainable
For Example
Governments
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Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.
William Kamkwamba / Inventor
Climate Change
Deforestation
Electric
Etc
Firewood
Skip
Alternative
Change Power Government
Adds
Trees
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What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
James Wolcott / Journalist
Art
Dance
Inspirational
Book
Critics
Deforestation
Disappear
Driven
Reporters
Reviewers
Roger
Thrive
Adapt
Cultural
Diffuse
Happening
Refugees
Twinkle
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