Environment
The first use of the phrase in an environmental context is disputed. Some say it was coined by David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, as a slogan for FOE when it was founded in 1969, although others attribute it to Rene Dubos who originated it as an advisor to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Canadian "futurist" Frank Feather also chaired a conference called "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally" in 1979 and has claimed the paternity of the expression. Others suggested that this phrase is coined by French theologian Jacques Ellul. Other possible originators include Buckminster Fuller, Hazel Henderson, and American activist Saul Alinsky. Others suggested that this phrase is coined by artist Yoko Ono. Ono did say the phrase in a 1981 interview but did not claim to have invented the phrase or the concept.
Pauly Shore uses the term in the spoof film Bio-Dome.
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Famous quotes containing the word environment:
“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (1836–1903)
“Today the young actors regard their environment with rage and disgust. They regard their Master not as disciples regard their Master, but as slaves regard their Master.”
—Judith Malina (b. 1926)
“... several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ...”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)