Zac Goldsmith Quotes:- Zac Goldsmith(born 20 January 1975) is a British politician and journalist who serves as Minister of State for the Pacific, International Environment, Climate and Forests, and Animal Welfare.
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It’s not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivize the right behavior, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behavior.
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn’t theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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We’ve all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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By uploading 40 years of ‘Ecologists’ editions online, we will be creating the world’s most extensive ecological archive. ‘The Ecologist’ will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar program in London.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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Climate change – for so long an abstract concern for an academic few – is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration’s Climate Change Science Programme reports ‘clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.’
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don’t use that capacity well.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow’s hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalization is about homogenizing differences in the worlds’ markets, cultures, tastes, and traditions. It’s about giving big business access to a global market.
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More than half the world’s largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
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You know I don’t really have faith in politicians – this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.’s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks is one of the things that make London special.
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Politics colors everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early ’90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning, and pushing for changes.
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Some of the world’s most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.
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I can’t be bought. I don’t need to be bought. I’m not a careerist. I don’t need to have a career in politics. I’m in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that’s my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare – but we haven’t applied the same standards to the food we import, so all we’re really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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