Causes Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values.…

— Dalai Lama

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world.…

— Isaac Asimov

“The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of…

— Wendell Berry

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

— Vandana Shiva

Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of…

— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

— Naomi Oreskes

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a…

— Martin Nowak

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity…

— George Monbiot

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

— Pentti Linkola

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth,…

— John F. Kennedy

“Only the man’s greed and scientific development is responsible for earth’s degradation of environment and ecology.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

— John Tillotson