Ecological Quotes - Page 7

• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• Consideremos que la quema intencionada de la tierra, la sobrepesca, la caza derrochadora, el reciclaje excesivo y peligroso de los recursos y otras "injusticias" similares contra las formas de la naturaleza comparten la responsabilidad de esta espiral ecológica descendente.

  Patriarca Ecuménico Bartolomé I de Constantinopla

  Responsibility, Hunting, Fishing

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• In the last few decades we have seen the extraordinary rise of ecosocialist movements around the world inspired in large part by Marx's ecological critique of political economy. Marx was indeed influenced by some of the earliest attempts to develop what we now call an ecological-systems view, rooted in the concept of metabolism. Building on this perspective, Marx defined socialism as the rational regulation by the associated producers of the metabolism between society and nature in such a way as to conserve energy and to promote the satisfaction of human needs.

  John Bellamy Foster

  Perspective, Political, Energy

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Siempre he sido un gran defensor del agua del grifo, no porque la considere inofensiva, sino porque me molesta la idea de comprar agua extraída de alguna cuenca remota y luego transportada por medio mundo. Beber agua embotellada libera a la gente de su preocupación por las amenazas ecológicas al río junto al que viven o a las cuencas de agua subterránea sobre las que viven. Es el mismo tipo de pensamiento que lleva a algunos a la conclusión complaciente de que si las cosas en la Tierra empeoran lo suficiente, bueno, nos iremos volando a una estación espacial en otro lugar.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Beber, Pensar, Ríos

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• In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Animal, Reality

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• La crisis ecológica muestra la urgencia de una solidaridad que abarque el tiempo y el espacio... Urge un mayor sentido de la solidaridad intergeneracional. Las generaciones futuras no pueden cargar con el coste de nuestro uso de los recursos medioambientales comunes.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Espacio, Medio Ambiente, Generaciones

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• The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Real, Animal

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Una especie consiste en un conjunto de poblaciones que se sustituyen geográfica o ecológicamente y de las que las vecinas se integran o hibridan allí donde están en contacto o que son potencialmente capaces de hacerlo (con una o varias de las poblaciones) en los casos en que el contacto se ve impedido por barreras geográficas o ecológicas.

  Ernst Mayr

  Science, Groups, Population

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• No te perteneces a ti mismo. Perteneces al universo. Tu significado permanecerá siempre oscuro para ti, pero puedes asumir que estás cumpliendo con tu significado si te aplicas a convertir todo lo que experimentas en la mayor ventaja para los demás. Haz que el mundo funcione, para el 100% de la humanidad, en el menor tiempo posible, mediante la cooperación espontánea, sin ofensa ecológica ni desventaja para nadie.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Spiritual, Forever, Humanity

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• ... el problema ecológico de nuestro tiempo exige una reevaluación radical de cómo vemos el mundo entero; exige una interpretación diferente de la materia y del mundo, una nueva actitud de la humanidad hacia la naturaleza y una nueva comprensión de cómo adquirimos y hacemos uso de nuestros bienes materiales.

  Patriarca Ecuménico Bartolomé I de Constantinopla

  Attitude, Understanding, World

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• The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.

  Ziauddin Sardar

  Lying, Roots, Shapes

  Ziauddin Sardar, Ehsan Masood (2006). “How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations”, Pluto Pr

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• The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice.

  Pope John Paul II

  Educational, Teaching, Order

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• The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sacrifice, Men, Discipline

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• At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. Economic freedom - not democracy, and not ecological stewardship - is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.

  Maude Barlow

  Heart, Air, Water

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• What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by doing so, dramatically increases productivity without compromising the ecological relationships that govern the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Technology, Humanity, Way

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.19, Palgrave Macmillan

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• El indicio más profundo y grave de las implicaciones morales que subyacen al problema ecológico es la falta de respeto por la vida evidente en muchas de las pautas de contaminación ambiental.

  Pope John Paul II

  Profundo, Medioambiental, Patrones

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• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

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• I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by that I mean I attempt to work with constellations of nature to create technological forms. So I'm part engineer, part ecologist, part inventor, really.

  John Todd

  Mean, Answers, World

  Fuente: edition.cnn.com

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Discipline

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• En Alemania es bueno que el mayor número posible de personas se sume a iniciativas y manifestaciones pacíficas contra el dominio de los mercados financieros. Rendir culto a la libertad sin trabas de los mercados globales ha llevado al mundo al borde de la ruina. Ahora necesitamos reglas sociales y ecológicas para la economía de mercado.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Gente, Pacífica, Ruinas

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• Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Hielo, Tierra, Agua

  Pierre Trudeau during House of Commons Debate, October 24, 1969.

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• Una de las penalidades de la educación ecológica es que uno vive solo en un mundo de heridas. Gran parte del daño infligido a la tierra es bastante invisible para los profanos. Un ecologista debe endurecer su caparazón y hacer creer que las consecuencias de la ciencia no son asunto suyo, o debe ser el médico que ve las marcas de la muerte en una comunidad que se cree bien y no quiere que le digan lo contrario.

  Aldo Leopold

  Believe, Doctors, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

  Ivan Illich

  Balance, Progressive, Ends

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• Cada vez que consumimos carne, huevos o productos lácteos, contribuimos a la devastación ecológica y al despilfarro de recursos a escala mundial.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Meat, Devastation

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Europe, People

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