“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
“Only the man’s greed and scientific development is responsible for earth’s degradation of environment and ecology.” — Dr. Ashok Anand 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
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
“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
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
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust… — Muhammad Yunus 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
“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 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
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“The signs accumulated. But I did not respond. I would not wake up. We will not wake up. This terrifying sleep of… — Eve Ensler 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
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
“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
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
I think people who speak and write about climate change and environmental degradation need to convey how interesting and important this topic… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to… — Roger Scruton 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
From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation. — Majora Carter 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
“A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.” — René Dubos Copy Share Image
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
