Environment
See also: Water resources of Singapore- CIA World Factbook: water resources (1975 figures), ranked 158 out of 174 countries
- New Economics Foundation: Happy Planet Index 2009, ranked 49 out of 143 countries
- US Department of Energy: CO2 emissions per capita 2004, ranked 23 out of 206 countries
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Famous quotes containing the word environment:
“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others—into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one’s future.”
—Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)
“... several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ...”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)
“White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)