Antidote Quote by Jared Diamond

“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows, from this…

— Murray Bookchin

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

— Edmund Hillary

“societies confronted with specific environmental circumstances-scarcity or abundance-have a higher risk of being affected by violent conflicts.”

— Philippe Le Billion

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…

— Donald Worster

“The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They are social…

— John Bellamy Foster

“[The idea] of an environmental ethic runs contrary to our cultural tradition.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political…

— Charles C. Mann

Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity…

— Murray Bookchin

Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human…

— Dale Jamieson

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature.…

— Richard M. Nixon

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to…

— Barry Commoner

Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent…

— Vandana Shiva