Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. — Anonymous 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
“The scale of the mess we leave behind is proportionate to the level of respect we have for others.” — Stewart Stafford 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
“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.” — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“Humanity is at a crossroads. We can continue down the current path of greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation.… — Bernie Sanders 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
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. — Simon Mainwaring 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
“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
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant… — Barry Commoner 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
consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
“A 2006 report by the Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative reported that the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to… — Paige Singleton Copy Share Image
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr 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
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
“There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency… — Steven Magee 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
Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent… — Mario Bunge 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
“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
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
I see myself as a human being. You're right, I am an American, I do live in Utah, and I am deeply… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
“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
“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
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 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
From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation. — Majora Carter 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
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
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
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
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
