“Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.” WorldYearsMatterStatesUnitedUnited StatesCrisisDecadesObesityEpidemicsSlow Motion Author:David L. Katz
“I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.” ThinkingHumansMaySufferingRaceWallConsequenceCrisisClimateClimate ChangeFinancialDecadesHuman RaceRealisingHittingSevereFinancial Crisis Author:Michael Meacher
“Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, high-speech broadband, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.” WorldBigsLastsChangeHappenedCrisisFinancialCloudsConnectedDecadesDataPostsInfancyIphoneAppsFinancial CrisisWirelessIpadsCellphoneWiringSkype Author:Thomas Friedman
“In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.” WayWellsProblemTermWaterNumbersHalfTalkingMillionsHugeCoupleRight NowCrisisDecadesContamination Author:Josh Fox
“Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change, and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainability, should we continue to give $135 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade to fossil fuel companies?” NeedsGivingShouldRunningNextEnergyPresidentSimpleAnswersCompanyBreakTaxesCrisisClimateClimate ChangeFollowingDecadesBillionsCandidatesFuelAddressesSustainabilityEfficiencyFossilsFossil FuelSubsidiesTax BreaksEnergy Efficiency Author:Bernie Sanders
“One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.” HoursEconomyGroupsEconomicCrisisFinancialDecadesWakingEconomistSpectacularIntriguingGreat DepressionAnalyzingFinancial CrisisEconomic CrisisSubplots Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.” OvercomingStrongerCrisisUnionsDecadesEuropean Union Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.” Has BeensStatesHomeFacesPoliticalLosesLeaderCareersTestsPressureElectionCrisisCriticalDecadesPollsMigrantsAngelaHome State Author:Rachel Martin
“A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.” MenWritingBookEuropeCrisisWorkersDecadesGenreRefugeePioneersMigrantsRefugee CrisisMigrant Workers Author:Adam Hochschild
“The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.” FactsEnergyCrisisDecadesPermanentEnteringEnergy Crisis Author:James Howard Kunstler
“For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this view. But the 2008 financial crisis showed that this view is incorrect, and Greenspan eventually admitted as much.” SelfLastsBeliefViewsCrisisFinancialDecadesRationalTraditionalEconomistPrevailingCorrectingFinancial Crisis Author:Kabir Sehgal
“What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.” Has BeensMovingLawThreeCapitalismCrisisDecadesLocationShiftingFrontiers Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.” TwoUseFormEnergyEasyGonePolicyProductsDevelopmentCrisisOilDecadesIdeologyConservationAdequateFree MarketRelianceTransportationRenewable EnergyGasolinePetroleumEnergy PolicyEnergy ConservationEnergy UseNo EnergyPublic TransportationEnergy Crisis Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
“Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.” ThreeAchieveYouthSightCrisisDecadesAidsDiscriminationRelatedZeroHivInfection Author:Ban Ki-moon
“I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.” BelieveArtMomentsLastsCultureI BelieveArt IsCrisisDecadesResistanceAggressiveRenewalSuccessionStagnationPrerogativeRupture Author:Eugene Ionesco
“This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.” StatesCrisisAccidentsDecadesNuclearHandleJapanMaximumTsunamiQuake Author:Naoto Kan