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Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.
Tom Arnold / Actor
Car
Conflict
Environmentalist
Environmentalists
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
Jesse Jackson / Activist
Fun
Political
Recycled
Speech
Environmentalists
Speeches
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We should be fingerprinting environmentalists... They are out to destroy the country.
Ann Coulter / Commentator
Destroy
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Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger / Former Governor Of California
Environmentalist
Hero
Policy
Teddy
Among
Environmentalists
Policies
Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk / Activist
Faces
Facts
People
Time Face People
Environmentalists
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Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists.
David Brock / Journalist
Focus
People Bad Doing
Democrats
Environmentalists
Fox
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Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.
Stewart Udall / American Politician
Critical
Stewards
Environmentalists
Indians
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Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
Michelle Malkin / Blogger
Pet
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Hate
Legislation
Size
Environmentalists
Expansive
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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Dixie Lee Ray / Former Governor Of Washington
Environmental
Lowest
Mankind
Radical
Species
Considered
Blamed
Environmentalists
Meanest
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I think it's been fun to show that Bryan and I share a Honda Fit, and we're huge environmentalists, and we're big activists for animal rights.
Brie Bella /
Animal Rights
Bryan
Honda
Activists
Environmentalists
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
B. F. Skinner / Psychologist
Conditions
Behavioral
Respond
Dire
Environmentalists
Few People
Journalists
Scientists
Tend
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Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic solutions.
Vinod Khosla / Businessman
Answers
Chasing
Hypothetical
Right Questions
Solutions
Environmentalists
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It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society.
Michael Shellenberger /
Controlling
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Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Independence
Donate
Driven
Putin
Environmentalists
Largely
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
Garrett Hardin / Ecologist
Environmental
Environmentalist
General Public
Hated
Alarming
General
Environmentalists
Feared
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The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.
Robert Kiyosaki / Investor
Forests
Fuel
Materials
Capitalists
Environmentalists
Oceans
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I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
Roger Ailes / Television Producer
Religion
Air
Clean
Clean Air
Clean Water
Conservation
Water
God Religion Believe
Extreme
Animals
Environmentalists
Trees
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
Ike Skelton / Former U.s. Representative
Environmental
Connections
Facts
Land
Protect
Anyone Else
Connection
Environmentalists
Preserve
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There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
Michael Pollan / Author
Concern
Culture
Landscape
Opposing
Progress
Wilderness
Environmentalists
Toward
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We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.
Pete Mccloskey / Politician
Independence
Church
Church And State
Court
Separation
Supreme
Supreme Court
Teddy
Theory
Believed
Politicians
Environmentalists
Roosevelt
Subject
Teddy Roosevelt
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Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.
David Harsanyi / Journalist
Expertise
Global Warming
Public Policy
Admittedly
Craft
Environmentalists
Exactly The Same
Fears
Possess
Puts
Virtually
Warming
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The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.
Charles C. Mann / Journalist
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Activists
Donald
Donald Trump
Environmentalists
Queue
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For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!
Ewan Mcgregor / Actor
Climate Change
Tree
Understanding
Environmentalists
Towards
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It's no secret that there are people who would like to narrow our discussions on climate change to a debate about pipelines alone in an attempt to divide Canadians - to pit workers against environmentalists.
Jagmeet Singh /
Climate Change
Debate
Attempt
Canadians
Discussions
Divide
Environmentalists
Narrow
No Secret
Pit
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Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.
Don Young / U.s. Representative
Democrat
Enemy
Groups
Party
Socialist
Environmentalists
Individuals
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The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
Paul Hawken / Environmentalist
Environmental
Despair
Evoke
Fascinating
Helpful
Milieu
Environmentalists
Responses
Understandable
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For Pocketbook Environmentalists, financial savings are the primary motivator. However Pocketbook Environmentalists are changing the face of the market and the planet for the better by demanding that going green saves you money.
Lynn Jurich /
Green
Demanding
Environmentalists
Motivator
Pocketbook
Primary
Saves
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The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Space
Apollo
Delicate
Footsteps
Iconic
Legacy
Astronauts
Contrasting
Enduring
Environmentalists
Images
Indeed
Programme
Sterile
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The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo Leopold and Ernest Seton. In both cases, the men found their lives and souls forever changed after they killed Mexican gray wolves.
Joy Covey /
Cases
Gray
Legendary
Mexican
Environmentalists
Souls
Spark
Wolves
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Do environmentalists really believe that green progress means looking out at America's majestic mountains, forests, green oceans, wilderness areas and deserts and viewing miles upon miles of nothing but windmills and solar paneling?
Stephen Moore /
Forests
Green
Majestic
Miles
Wilderness
Mountains
Deserts
Environmentalists
Oceans
Solar
Viewing
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I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.
Aubrey Mcclendon / Executive
New York
Beach
Hooked
Mad
Sanitary
Storm
Years
Surge
Beaches
Environmentalists
Requires
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Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.
Ed Whitfield /
Clean
Clean Air
Groups
Business Side
Entities
Environmentalists
Favor
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Renewables need to be developed in an environmentally responsible way. And, you know, I frankly have heard criticisms from even environmentalists saying that some wind farms impact gaming and fishing patterns, whether it's offshore or onshore.
George P. Bush / Attorney
Farms
Fishing
Gaming
Heard
Impact
Offshore
Patterns
Wind
Criticisms
Developed
Environmentalists
Frankly
Renewables
Responsible Way
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When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Madeleine M. Kunin / Former Governor Of Vermont
Labor
Management
New Ideas
Affect
Constantly
Politicians
Environmentalists
Facing
Filter
Pass
Sieve
Taboos
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Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea.
Mark Kurlansky / Journalist
Healthy
Livelihood
Sea
Sensitive
Nearly
Environmentalists
Fishermen
Immediate
Messing
Struggling
Vested
Vested Interest
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
Naomi Klein / Author
Beats
Earth
Habit
Nothing Matters
Bad Habit
Environmentalists
Matters
Fried
Issue
Saying
Smug
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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
Stewart Udall / American Politician
Environmental
Air
Air Pollution
Automobile
Cities
Effects
Example
Industry
Motor
Noise
Percent
Pollution
Pressure
Well Known
Cause
Environmentalists
For Example
Vehicles
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There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They're going green primarily because it makes good financial sense, but the fact that it benefits their families' health and the environment also makes them feel good.
Lynn Jurich /
Environmental
Benefits
Feel Good
Green
Wave
Environmentalists
Pocketbook
Primarily
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The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.
Grover Norquist /
Government
Society
Democratic
Democratic Party
Dollars
Labor
Machines
Made
Party
Political
Radical
Restructure
Tax Dollars
Trial Lawyers
Unions
Tax
Big City
City
Coercive
Employees
Environmentalists
Feminists
Trial
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Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.
Gary Bauer / Activist
Abortion
Global Warming
Immigration
Keys
Outspoken
Population
Population Growth
Reducing
Rights
Silent
Size
Support
Contributor
Environmentalists
Industrial
Largely
Smaller
Warming
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First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal.
Josh Fox / Film Director
Coal
Gas
Natural Gas
Bought
Democrats
Environmentalists
Lie
First Of All
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Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia.
Kenneth Fisher / Manager
Technology
Advantage
Chemicals
Cleanliness
Convinced
Cost
Paranoia
Relative
Dead
Wrong
Environmentalists
Sources
Supposedly
Ultimately
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I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.
Burt Rutan / Aerospace Engineering
Car
Technology
Advanced Technology
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Electric
Energy
Global Warming
Resources
Seven
Tipping
Unprecedented
Years
Advanced
Atmospheric
Concerns
Drove
Environmentalists
Global
None
Point
Warming
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Personalization is everywhere. We are constantly asked, directly or indirectly, to create Our Own Whatever - containing and limited to our 'favorite sources of information.' Republicans do that; Democrats do it; environmentalists do it; terrorists do it; science fiction enthusiasts do it. That's a real problem, I think.
Cass Sunstein / Legal Scholar
Containing
Science Fiction
Democrats
Directly
Environmentalists
Republicans
Indirectly
Real Problem
Sources
Terrorists
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Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Bacteria
Drinking
Drinking Water
New York City
Sewage
Tied
Waste
Beaches
Collected
Dozens
Environmentalists
Pose
Samples
Types
Upstate
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There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing spots. And so it's gone from an issue that only environmentalists cared about to an issue that almost everybody in the state of Hawaii cares about, because it's really affecting our quality of life.
Brian Schatz /
Quality
Hawaii
Quality Of Life
Shore
Spots
Summer
Surfing
Whole
Across
Affecting
Almost
Cared
Cares
Coral
Environmentalists
Issue
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When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the greatest asset that they have, it is their land. They care about the water that they drink. They care about the air that they breathe. We should see them as partners, not adversaries.
Scott Pruitt / Attorney General Of Oklahoma
Adversaries
Breathe
Partners
Asset
Environmentalists
For Example
Greatest Asset
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I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.
Michael Shellenberger /
Funding
Harsh
Terrified
Consequences
Defend
Suffered
Disinformation
Environmentalists
Fellow
Remained
Stood
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