From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation. — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“The world is happily moving forward to destruction of there own kind and others by taking on Mother Earth.” — Harry P.S Copy Share Image
“A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.” — René Dubos Copy Share Image
“Only the man’s greed and scientific development is responsible for earth’s degradation of environment and ecology.” — Dr. Ashok Anand Copy Share Image
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from… — Callum Roberts Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth…… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
“Solar energy, in its many forms, has accustomed us to the idea that using energy must create huge environmental impacts, either by… — William Tucker Copy Share Image
We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“But now this taco soup is an anonymous commodity. It arrives on my table seemingly by magic. With this anonymity comes ingratitude—I… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“Global warming, environmental degradation, global flows of economic speculation and risk taking, overpopulation, global debt, new viruses, terrorism and warfare, and political… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
“They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything,… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before.… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
“We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
“The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The scale of the mess we leave behind is proportionate to the level of respect we have for others.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Cattle grazing on public lands is heavily subsidized by the federal government, so yes, all of us taxpayers are helping to pay… — Mary Ellen Hannibal Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
