Action Quote by Ban Ki-moon

Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.

— Gerald Durrell

For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change, growing scarcity…

— Ban Ki-moon

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff…

— Annie Leonard

In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the…

— Philip Yancey

The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will…

— Clay Shirky

We need a transformation of the world economy and of how we use and share the Earth's resources. We are running out of time.…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction of plant…

— Joanna Macy

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and…

— Gloria Steinem

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment,…

— Ted Turner

At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of…

— Mohamed Nasheed

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives…

— Alex Steffen