Aquifers Quotes

• Lo que la gente no entiende es que cuando el agua se contamina, es todo un acuífero. Hay todo un mundo fascinante que existe bajo nuestros pies y que no vemos, por lo tanto no relacionamos.

  Erin Brockovich

  Feet, People, Water

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.

  Lester R. Brown

  Country, Real, Cities

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• We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

  Winona LaDuke

  Lakes, Land, Wings

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• El acuífero [es] la capa freática que la gente necesita para mantenerse segura. La naturaleza tiene un sistema increíble de purificación del agua bajo tierra. El agua subterránea es mucho mejor para beber que el agua superficial porque filtra las bacterias que pueden causar todo tipo de problemas.

  Josh Fox

  Water, People, Tables

  "Gasland: The Fracking of America Josh Fox, Part I". Entrevista con Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 6 de diciembre de 2012.

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• Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

  Pete Seeger

  Mean, Thinking, Air

  "Possibility and Hope". Interview with Linda C. Forbes, monthlyreview.org. January 1, 2015.

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• Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

  Lester R. Brown

  Land, Civilization, Atmosphere

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• I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Problem, Wells

  "An alternative to alternative energy: T. Boone Pickens at TED2012". Interview with Chris Anderson, blog.ted.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Hoy en día, nuestros incentivos no están bien establecidos: se puede ganar mucho dinero quemando combustibles fósiles, excavando humedales, bombeando agua fósil de acuíferos que tardarán 10.000 años en recargarse, sobreexplotando especies en aguas internacionales que están a punto de colapsarse, etcétera.

  Ramez Naam

  Years, Water, Digging

  "Preguntas y respuestas con Ramez Naam: Diálogos sobre el medio ambiente". Entrevista con Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

  Jeff Goodell

  Cousin, Air, Views

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• I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse.

  George Carlin

  Ocean, Cutting, Men

  "George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.

  Philip Yancey

  Years, Oil, Waiting

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• There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. Not one.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  Hydraulic Fracturing, Cases, Wells

  "Burning Love" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.

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• ... en una historia de ruptura espiritual, un pacto social construido sobre la fantasía y los secretos colectivos, la poesía se hace más necesaria que nunca: mantiene los acuíferos subterráneos fluyendo; es la voz líquida que puede atravesar la piedra.

  Adrienne Rich

  Spiritual, Voice, Poetry

  Adrienne Rich (2003). "Lo que se encuentra ahí: Cuadernos sobre poesía y política (Edición ampliada)", p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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