Care Quote by Petra Kelly

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

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind…

— Jamais Cascio

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote…

— Mark Udall

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away…

— Thomas Berry

Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification…

— Pope John Paul II

If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed…

— George Monbiot

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We need a more prosperous environment.

— Patrick Hunt

You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of…

— Yoweri Museveni

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is…

— Petra Kelly

“Over a large range of cases, environmental problems arise from our entirely reasonable habit of taking the benefits of our activities, while passing on…

— Roger Scruton