Collapse Quote by Joan D. Vinge

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

— Jonas Salk

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability…

— Frank Herbert

Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great…

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

“There is no word for such a catastrophe. It would liquefy the surface of the planet, vaporizing the oceans and sterilizing everything from the…

— N.K. Jemisin

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds…

— Thomas Malthus

Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life.…

— David Attenborough

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

— Eckhart Tolle

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

— George Monbiot

The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all…

— Stanley Krippner