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When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything.
Greta Thunburg /
Ecological
No Point
Depressed
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
Dan Barber / Chef
Capacity
Ecological
Habitat
Lifetime
Looks
Thinking
Agricultural
Carrying
Habitats
Services
Throughout
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Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
Ernst Mayr / Biologist
Doomed
Ecological
Extinction
Physiological
Species
Behavioral
Competitive
Evolutionary
Improved
Innovations
Inventions
Rapid
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We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
Maurice Strong /
Developing
Ecological
Footprint
Impact
Condition
World People Impact
Developing World
Industrialized
Larger
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
Zac Goldsmith /
Environmental
Ecological
Online
Abroad
Extensive
Political Agenda
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I enjoy a good meal as much as anyone, but I get so confused by nutritional, budgetary, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and time-management concerns that I often subsist for weeks on instant oatmeal and multivitamins.
Elif Batuman / Author
Aesthetic
Confused
Ecological
Ethical
Instant
Budgetary
Weeks
Concerns
Good Meal
Meal
Nutritional
Subsist
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We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
Parker Palmer /
Dependent
Ecological
Embrace
Frightening
Interconnected
Simple
Species
Vivid
Accountable
Crises
Detail
Fact
Global
Profoundly
Reveal
Simple Fact
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The beauty of the Stir It Up lies in its ecological balance. We're bringing high quality, earth-friendly materials together with innovative design. The result is powerful sound and a stylish look for the new turntable.
Rohan Marley /
Ecological
Innovative
Materials
Stylish
Bringing
Stir
Turntable
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Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the ecological balance of our Earth. Upset the balance and the consequences are disastrous.
Amala Akkineni /
Ecological
Integrated
Serving
Upset
Creature
Disastrous
Important Part
Millions Of Years
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I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
James J. Gibson / Psychologist
Animal
Ecological
Environment
Physical Science
Relative
Assume
Conceived
Simply
Instead
Physical
Properties
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Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world.
Yuval Noah Harari /
Blink
Ecological
Human Race
Mankind
Transformed
Unimportant
Evolutionary
Fundamentally
Most Important Thing
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
Dan Barber / Chef
Clarity
Ecological
Resources
Stable
Advances
Cheap
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The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.
Joel Salatin / American Farmer
Assault
Break
Ecological
Farming
Function
Linear
Single
Soil
Species
Structure
System
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I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.
Chen Guangbiao /
Big Companies
Chiefs
Cost
Ecological
Environment
Gdp
Grandchildren
Growth
Mayors
Biggest
Chase
Companies
Expense
Heads
Profits
Sacrificing
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Freeman Dyson / Physicist
Space
Destiny
Ecological
Niche
Species
Arrival
Awaiting
Exhaust
Expand
Million
Niches
Question
Shall
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A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Beef
Cereal
Curry
Ecological
Footprint
Greener
Hunk
Scottish
Arguably
Wild
Concentrated
Feed
Intensive
Rabbit
Vegetable
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There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.
Francis Spufford / Author
Adaptable
Christianity
Ecological
Grace
Moments
Triumphant
Love New Story
Different Parts
Incredibly
Intact
Low
Niches
Organism
Parts
Preserving
Repertoire
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If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.
Andrew H. Knoll /
Available
Bacteria
Biology
Carbon
Ecological
Heavy
Lifting
Materials
Nitrogen
Organisms
Planet
Ways
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There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.
M. S. Swaminathan /
Assets
Biodiversity
Conservation
Ecological
Indian
Land
Today
Two
Water
Agricultural
Basic
Before
Challenge
Sustainable
Major
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So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.
Ron Dellums / Former Mayor Of Oakland
Bay Area
Black
Country
Ecological
Feminism
Fragile
Guy
Racism
Talking
Area
Bay
Challenging
Looked
Preserving
System
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The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
Ron Eglash /
Advantage
Democracy
Developmental
Ecological
Entrepreneurship
Ethical
Sustainability
Properties
Success Is
Take Advantage
Web
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A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Family
Clarity
Common
Communism
Ecological
Family Values
Hostility
Intimacy
Modernity
Moral
Nostalgia
Primitive
Solidarity
Sustainability
Else
Harmonies
Ideologies
Rhythms
Shared
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It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn't care about it, my classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.
Greta Thunburg /
Classmates
Ecological
Cared
Relatives
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
Ma Jun /
Health
Damage
Discharge
Ecological
Environment
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Long Lasting
Pollution
Public Health
Standards
Cause
Cheap
Public
Course
Even
Exceeding
However
Production
Metal
Processes
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If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed ourselves, while changing the way the remaining land is farmed. Instead, governments almost everywhere pour public money into planetary destruction.
George Monbiot / Writer
Amount
Climate
Destruction
Ecological
Land
Public Money
Everywhere
Almost
Changing
Feed
Governments
Instead
Planetary
Pour
Prevent
Remaining
Task
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Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.
Richard Gere / Actor
Animal
Different Cultures
Ecological
Saved
Simple
Species
Survival
Thinking
Cultures
Planet
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Garrett Hardin / Ecologist
Environmental
Commerce
Ecological
Financial
Impact
Political
Political Power
Principles
Recommendations
Surprising
Used
Vested Interests
Hardly
Interests
Investments
Moreover
Practical
Studies
Suppress
Threaten
Vested
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The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.
David Grinspoon /
Celestial
Crimson
Ecological
Filling
Invasion
Mars
Utopian
Alien
Bright
Fantasies
Fears
Formed
Ruin
Theories
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Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Environmental
Damage
Ecological
Holistic
Hunted
Meat
Perspective
Purchasing
Animals
Harmful
Indiscriminately
Involves
Market
Viewed
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The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.
Daniel Goleman / Author
Environmental
Bottom
Bottom Line
Ecological
Impact
Research
Research And Development
Time Today Will
Cared
Concerns
Consider
Developed
Industrial
Processes
Reinvent
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Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
Jamais Cascio /
Ecological
Goal
Insufficient
Mean
Political
Sustainability
Uncertain
Beneath
Seemingly
Swiftly
Unexpectedly
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For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have engaged with the potential destruction of this world on an emotional level and there is a fundamental difference. There is huge feeling of grief, of loss.
Gail Bradbrook /
Destruction
Ecological
Engaged
Evidence
Grief
Emotional Level
Fundamental Difference
Mounting
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Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it's also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.
Charles Boustany /
Ecological
Soil
Tragedy
Attack
Different Type
Gulf
Intentional
Rig
Sept
Spill
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I think that once you fully understand the climate and ecological emergencies, then you know what you can do as well. And, of course, there's a lot of things you can do in your everyday life, but we cannot be focusing on these individual things you can do. We have to see the full picture.
Greta Thunburg /
Ecological
Emergencies
Everyday Life
Focusing
We Cannot
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In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.
Sigmar Gabriel / Former German Federal Minister Of The Environment
Ecological
Financial Markets
Germany
Market Economy
Peaceful
People
Ruins
Good Freedom World
Brink
Demonstrations
Initiatives
Join
Ruin
Rule
Unfettered
Worshipping
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We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble.
David Quammen / Writer
Animal
Ecological
Habitat
Human Population
Population
Shaking
Viruses
Abundant
Flourish
Introduce
Limitations
Loose
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Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Aggravated
Climate
Climate Change
Degrade
Ecological
Energy
Environment
Hazards
Insidious
Natural
Natural Resources
Nine
Population
Pressure
Resources
Shock
Stem
Supplies
Water
Change Food Water
Billion
Global
Projected
Rises
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
Lance Henriksen / Actor
Capacity
Contagion
Ecological
Longevity
Modern Life
Ramifications
Life Family Remember
Further
Grandfathers
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We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.
Alex Steffen /
Carbon
Depth
Ecological
Ecosystems
Gas
Including
Supplies
Toxic
Atmospheric
Chemical
Depend
Multitude
Respecting
Shared
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If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.
Mike Mills / Composer
Character
Ecological
Equal
Land
Location
Thinking
Time Character Me
Viewpoint
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The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.
William Gibson / Novelist
Book
Cutting
Distance
Ecological
Electricity
Enormous
Paper
Retail
Traditional
Considered
Distances
Great Deal
Manufacture
Shipped
Weigh
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Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history.
Guy Standing /
History
Changed
Common
Common Man
Complementary
Covered
Ecological
Firewood
Fishing
Forests
Granted
Including
Rights
Water
Wording
Had
Original
Came
Extended
Liberties
Magna
Parts
Perhaps
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Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring about change as our ancestors have done before us. Only this kind of large-scale economic disruption can rapidly bring the government to the table to discuss our demands. We are prepared to risk it all for our futures.
Gail Bradbrook /
Appropriate
Disruption
Ecological
Expansion
Large Scale
Scale
Ancestors
Discuss
Facing
Futures
Occupying
Rapidly
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