“If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.”– Nina Fedoroff Related Quotes “A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world’s nations toward saving the climate.”– Donella Meadows “Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.”– Sherwood Boehlert “Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt – an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there’s a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it’s really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.”– Jon Meacham