Environmental Degradation Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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
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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
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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
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We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
— Simon Mainwaring
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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
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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
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The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
— Derrick Jensen
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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: