Environmental Quote by Majora Carter

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

— Frederick Lenz

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide…

— Pope Francis

“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

Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our…

— Barry Commoner

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

— Anonymous

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something…

— Roger Scruton

The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the…

— Wangari Maathai

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

— Barry Gardiner

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice…

— Pope John Paul II