Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.
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.
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
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