Catastrophe Quote by Germaine Greer

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

— David R. Brower

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

— Don DeLillo

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

— Robert Solow

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

— Moby

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert…

— Al Gore

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through…

— Tony Blair

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

— Barack Obama

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or…

— Eckhart Tolle

We have an energy crisis but we continue to consume as if there will be a magical solution.

— Zeynep Tufekci

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

— Sam Nunn

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

— Liu Cixin

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson