Accelerate Quote by Wangari Maathai

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers…

— Indira Gandhi

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce…

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Natalie Jeremijenko

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the…

— Petra Kelly

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 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

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on…

— Richard Leakey

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at…

— Helene D. Gayle

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we…

— John Kasich

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

— Dr. Ashok Anand

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably,…

— Tony Blair