Food Quote by M. S. Swaminathan

You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s,…

— Nicholas Stern

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

— Paul Hawken

Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods.

— Barry Gardiner

Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will…

— Sonny Perdue

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

— Jan Egeland

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and…

— David Suzuki

Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought.

— Sonam Wangchuk

...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed,…

— Peter Garrett

And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines,…

— Naomi Klein

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest,…

— Mark Shand

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in…

— Jamais Cascio