Consequence Quote by Pope John Paul II

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping…

— Zhou Shengxian

In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink…

— Felix Dodds

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature.…

— Richard M. Nixon

Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many…

— Pope John Paul II

“We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if we don't,…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

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

— Dr. Ashok Anand

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all…

— David Suzuki

“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

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

Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly…

— E. F. Schumacher

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of…

— Pope Paul VI