“It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.” FirstsIssuesEnvironmentCenturySecurityFutureTwentiesNational Security Book:The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War Source: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.” YearsHumansKindPastEnergyHuman BeingsMillionsEnvironmentHappenedRocksCenturyOceanClimate ChangeScalesExperimentsAtmosphereCarbonLarge Scale Author:Roger Revelle
“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.” ShouldKindWaterCommunityEnvironmentModernLandCenturyAwarenessCreaturesProgramDestructionBasesRelationSpeciesFocusedUselessPreservesThreadFabricEcologyConservation20th CenturyEcologicalLiving Creatures Author:Rachel Carson
“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.” IfsNeedsHumansEndsSocialGrowthCommunityHuman BeingsCitiesEnvironmentCenturyBuildingCitizensOrganizationAvailableDestructiveDominant21st CenturyConstructiveExplosivesNonprofitsSocial EnvironmentBuilding Community Author:Peter Drucker
“I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.” BelieveHumansArtFormI BelieveNaturalSpaceCitiesEnvironmentStreetsCenturyPerformancesI Believe InDiverse21st CenturyArt DanceStreet Life Author:Antony Gormley
“I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.” IfsWarEnergySunSuccessfulDoubtEnvironmentCenturyWeaponsEnvironmentalNo DoubtBeing SuccessfulPollutionEcologyRenewable EnergySave Mother EarthSunbeamsSolar EnergyEco FriendlySolar PowerEnergy ConservationGreen WorldNatural Energy Author:George Porter
“It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.” NaturalEnvironmentWonderfulGenerationsCenturyHonorProtectResourcesPreservesMedalFuture GenerationNatural Resources Author:Louis Bacon