Collapse Quote by Peter Singer

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life…

— Barry Commoner

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

— Gustave Flaubert

Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive…

— Edmund Bourne

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to…

— Ralph Steadman

For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of…

— Peter Kingsley

“We live in perilous times and at crossroads. On the one hand, we risk our extinction and that of our planet because of the…

— Deepak Chopra

Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.

— Liu Cixin

The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and…

— Dale Jamieson

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

— Rene Dubos

We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a…

— Jonathon Porritt

“Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.”

— Steven Magee

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

— Eckhart Tolle