Climate-crisis Quote by Lester R. Brown Download Open image ““We have put the extinction clock on a fast-forward.”” — Lester R. Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate-crisis Environmentalism Eradication Extinction Over-population
“How will humanity react when it realizes that it has survived an extinction event?” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these… — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,… — Raymond Quaneau Copy Share Image
“Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.” — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“The stories we hear daily tell us that we are not good enough to rise to our environmental moment. For a long time, our… — Alice Irene Whittaker Copy Share Image
“Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Earth doesn't need our consent to wipe us out, any more than we asked permission from corona virus. Cosmos carries no fury like a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.” — Greta Thunberg Copy Share Image
“The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer the most… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need another climate summit, the world needs a climate summon.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The richest 1 percent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up… — Greta Thunberg Copy Share Image
“Water is a source of life but also a source of conflict, greed, and war.” — Fons Burger Copy Share Image
“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either harden his… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re: global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Did God regret creating man? I am sure he did. See what man is doing to the planet.” — Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu Copy Share Image
