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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Ted Turner / Businessman
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Father
Movement
Thinking
Captain
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Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.
Jaggi Vasudev / Philanthropist
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Allergic
Automobile
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I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.
Marshall Curry / Filmmaker
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Mainstream
Elf
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Hates
Surprised
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No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.
Jostein Gaarder / Author
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Active
Alike
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Galen Rowell / Photographer
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Photography
Roles
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No Question
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The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.
Mark Kurlansky / Journalist
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Fixing
Movement
Stopping
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I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
Brooke Burke / Actress
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Believe
Differences
Effort
Movement
Big Difference
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One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
Mike Love / Musician
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Lessons
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Act
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Globally
Locally
The Most Important
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
Naomi Klein / Author
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Activist
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Mistake
Movement
Scare
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That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.
Laurie David / Activist
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Hurts
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Meet
Standard
Pushes
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The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
Paul Watson / Activist
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High Level
Recruitment
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Ted Danson / Actor
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Political
Disasters
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Processes
Slow
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It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.
Joel Salatin / American Farmer
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Movement
Encouraged
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In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
David Suzuki / Professor
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Battle
Fighting
Movement
Temporary
Victory
Time Good Always
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Every Time
Seem
Victories
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I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
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So-Called
Specifically
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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
Maurice Strong /
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Influence
Leader
Movement
Turner
Asset
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Financially
Great Example
Reduced
Sets
Ted
Ted Turner
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There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.
Clay Shirky / Writer
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Lying
Together We Can
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Larger
Lies
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A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.
Matt Gonzalez / American Politician
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Men
Space
Altered
Approach
Fascinating
Movement
Needs
Past
Reversal
Sake
Urgent
Decisions
Challenge
Man-Made
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Facing
Spaces
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Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules, I've seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.
David Grinspoon /
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Apollo
Exploration
Reverence
Astronauts
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Extension
Planetary
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I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
Edward Burtynsky / Photographer
Positive
Environmental
Concerned
Movement
Thinking
Tone
Too Much
Trying
Aspects
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Failed
Pull
Stick
Sold
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At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
Arlo Guthrie / Singer-Songwriter
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Anti War
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Movement
Ready
Rights
Time Change History
Ban
Bomb
Civil
Change Time History
Course
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Folk
Generation
Happening
Rights Movement
Same Time
Suddenly
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It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.
Steven Crowder /
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Government
Able
Dependence
Emissions
Movement
Paint
Pollution
Problem
Secret
Shots
Symptoms
Taken
Control
Those
Create
Designed
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Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Government Control
Increased
No Secret
Solution
Step
Ultimately
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I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.
David Suzuki / Professor
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Amount
Intimidation
Martyr
Might
Movement
Terrified
Assaulted
Shot
Biggest
Tremendous
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Grabbed
Tremendous Amount
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
Naomi Klein / Author
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Legal
Dazzling
Framework
Late
Legislation
Movement
Pollution
Responding
Series
Whole
Wildlife
After
Came
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Legal Framework
Protecting
Victories
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