Act Quote by Clay Shirky

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you…

— Clay Shirky

My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused…

— Milton Friedman

The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of…

— Winona LaDuke

“The reality is that under capitalist conditions―meaning maximization of short-term gain―you're ultimately going to destroy the environment: the only question is when. Now, for…

— Noam Chomsky

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if…

— Kofi Annan

One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then…

— Abhijit Banerjee

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest,…

— Satish Kumar

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is…

— Petra Kelly

The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary…

— Avi Lewis

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a…

— Martin Nowak

The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the…

— Stanislav Grof

The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.

— Rush Limbaugh