Seth Moulton Quotes

The Snake and Columbia river system is vital to the Pacific Northwest.

We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship.

Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Every time there is an economic intensification, there is an ecological impact.

Environmental degradation and pollution constrain economic growth, contribute to large-scale migration, harm public health, and engender social unrest.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be the impact of energy on the environment.

I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment.

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

We don't think it is fair for these environmental groups to be beating up Belize over this little dam when their own countries have so many of them. Now they are trying to tell us we can't have one.

Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.

The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.