Addresses Quote by Thoraya Obaid

This problem will knock on the doors of all of us, whether through uncontrolled and unmanageable migration flows, by means of diseases and epidemics,…

— Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

— Ban Ki-moon

We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is…

— Hilda Scott

We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page…

— Bruce Davison

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject…

— Amber Rudd

The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.

— Paul Polman

By creating a generation of vulnerable people, especially children, with a poor, irregular diet, we are storing up a public health time bomb.

— Luciana Berger

The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to…

— Vandana Shiva

“Before answering this question, we need to say a few more words about famine, plague and war. The claim that we are bringing them…

— Yuval Noah Harari