Accidents Quote by Jamais Cascio

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the…

— Martin Rees

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also…

— Paul Stamets

Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

— Ian Davis

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow…

— Maya Angelou

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way,…

— Bram Stoker

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

— Michael Arden

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

— Niki de St. Phalle

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

— Carter Burwell

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

— Vandana Shiva

Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic…

— Tom Robbins

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific…

— William Kittredge

Resilience can only form if we face, and learn how to be better equipped to manage, our problems.

— Jo Frost