Avoided Quote by Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning…

— Barry Commoner

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added…

— Gaylord Nelson

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

— Barry Commoner

There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds…

— Dean Stockwell

In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink…

— Felix Dodds

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over…

— Wangari Maathai

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has…

— William E. Rees

The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We…

— Wendell Berry

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil…

— Dan Lipinski

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....

— Frederick Seitz

If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we…

— Ray Anderson

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world.…

— Isaac Asimov