Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad…

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental…

— Muhammad Yunus

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into…

— Barry Commoner

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through…

— Tony Blair

Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that I don't…

— Theodora Goss

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide…

— Pope Francis

Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else,…

— Roger Scruton

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak…

— Dalai Lama

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

— Irene Rosenfeld

“If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and…

— Ban Ki-moon

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

— Warren Christopher

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At…

— Kofi Annan

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

— Derrick Jensen

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan