Biosphere Quote by George Monbiot Download Open image “Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?” — George Monbiot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biosphere Easy Hard Inspirational Love
With biobanking there's just another tool available to make sure that the land we actually conserve has better biodiversity values. It's usually more contiguous.… — Frank Sartor Copy Share Image
Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. — Herve Falciani Copy Share Image
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After… — Arie de Geus Copy Share Image
Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.” — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore it. But… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated with a… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on the wrong… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If I could turn back the clock, magically deleting my prostate cancer, the surgery I needed and its complications, would I do so? It… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we… — Joseph Guth Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water,… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
![“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made the world' is simply a more or less sophisticated…” quote by P.W. Atkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4df/p-w-atkins-58341_answers_religious-belief-is-outmoded-and-ridicul_151446.jpg)
