Civilization Quote by Al Gore

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be…

— Thomas Lovejoy

“Suppose we humans are, as a species, exhibiting disease behavior: we’re multiplying with no regard for limits, consuming natural resources as if there will…

— Joseph C. Jenkins

On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of…

— Prince Charles

Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind…

— Eef Barzelay

People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind…

— Frederick Lenz

We are a plague on the Earth.

— David Attenborough

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its…

— David Graeber

“In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the…

— Richard Preston

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

— William Osler

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

— Sam Nunn

The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our…

— M. Scott Peck

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create…

— Gaylord Nelson