Arise Quote by Martin Rees

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've…

— Martin Rees

Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as…

— Martin Rees

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health…

— Jamais Cascio

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such…

— Robert Higgs

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of…

— Pentti Linkola

The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our…

— M. Scott Peck

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

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

— Maurice Blanchot

The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or…

— Dick Cheney

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves…

— Carl Safina

The specter of climate change threatens worsening natural disasters, rapid urbanization, forced migration, and economic hardship for the most vulnerable. Despite significant global advances,…

— Tedros Adhanom

The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global…

— Al Gore