Balance Quote by Richard M. Nixon

“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

Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we…

— Al Gore

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We…

— Wendell Berry

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide…

— Pope Francis

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning…

— Barry Commoner

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

— Dr. Ashok Anand

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has…

— William E. Rees

“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy -- for some, strangely or frighteningly easy -- to join the dots…

— Timothy Morton

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

— Vandana Shiva

The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human…

— David Miliband

“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows, from this…

— Murray Bookchin