Challenges Quote by John Gummer

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I…

— Annalee Newitz

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of…

— Noam Chomsky

Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping…

— Zhou Shengxian

Only after disaster can we be ressurected.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of…

— Avi Lewis

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

“Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises — car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the…

— David Suzuki

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

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no…

— Emile M. Cioran

In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves…

— Seth Shostak