Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe. — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Look, just producing energy cleanly doesn’t clean up the environment. Energy is the fuel of consumption, and rampant consumption is what drives… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex… — Mirah Copy Share Image
Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Copy Share Image
“This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue. We… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I understood intersectionality—the way that white supremacy props up patriarchy props up poverty props up environmental destruction props up white supremacy again—on… — Jacob Tobia Copy Share Image
“REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger 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
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing. — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
“The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can’t worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
The claim that democracy and efficiency are contradictory is nonsense. That's evident in the history of democracy itself, because it is only… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
“In this century wars will not be fought over oil, as in the past, but over water. The situation is becoming desperate.… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“Here is why the wellbeing economy comes at the right time. At the international level there have been some openings, which can… — Lorenzo Fioramonti Copy Share Image
“continue polluting while trying to offset the damage through some face-saving corporate philanthropy exercises. We would be fools to assume that we… — Lorenzo Fioramonti Copy Share Image
“I am part of a lost generation and I refuse to believe that I can change the world I realize this may… — Jonathan Reed Copy Share Image
“Beauty Junkies is the title of a recent book by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski, “a self-confessed recovering addict of cosmetic… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
