Environmental Degradation Quotes

21 quotes by 17 authors

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. — Warren Christopher
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a… — Kofi Annan
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental… — Eliot Coleman
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear… — Tony Blair
The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they,… — Wangari Maathai
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation. — Irene Rosenfeld
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and… — Dalai Lama
Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with… — Pope Francis
Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. — Sherwood Boehlert
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to… — Gregory S. Paul
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost… — Barry Commoner
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and… — Muhammad Yunus
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood,… — Wangari Maathai
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. — Simon Mainwaring
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation.… — Muhammad Yunus
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly… — Herman E. Daly
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. — Jose Andres Puerta

Who Wrote These Environmental Degradation Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 21 Environmental Degradation Quotes as follows: