I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.
I think we can create an environment where America can kind of get back on its economic feet.
Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.
The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.