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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes: We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.
         

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.


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The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.



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The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.



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If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.



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You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.



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The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.





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