Alexandra Fuller Quotes

We must subject the machine—technology—to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

Nearly everywhere there is crushing poverty, religious and ethnic enmity, and exploitation of people, other species, and the earth. Sometimes it may even seem that we have passed the point of no return -- that we cannot limit population, harmonize differences, and decontaminate the planet in time. But in a time of crisis, the only philosophically tenable position for a pessimist is optimism.

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

We need to put a priority on environment, health, and safety protections.

We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.

Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.

I had spent the prior eight years working at my firm primarily representing big chemical companies, helping them comply with all the different state and federal laws.

There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out.

My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.

Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.

My highest priority is the safety of all Oregonians and their communities.

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.