Challenges Quote by Andrew Mitchell

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is…

— Rebecca Solnit

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

— Barack Obama

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention…

— Jan Egeland

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough…

— Petra Nemcova

In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

— Charlie Morton

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from…

— Rebecca Solnit

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of…

— Avi Lewis

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

— David Miliband

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what…

— Amartya Sen

As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits…

— Anonymous

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

— Chuck Palahniuk