Ethan B. Epstein Quotes

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

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.

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

The economy of the future has been aligned with the climate agenda. Even the competitiveness of companies will depend on how resource efficient they are.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

Firms have traditionally ignored the carrot of environmental technology until they felt the stick of environmental enforcement.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.