“Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.” ProcessSituationEvolutionCrisisResponseSpeciesAwakeningEnormousAcceleration Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.” Has BeensAmericaWealthAmountCrisisInvestmentAcceptedEnormousElitesOnly Time1930sRedistribution Of Wealth Author:Susan George
“Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.” HumansFacesMovingHouseHuman BeingsLossFireCarCrisisClimateClimate ChangeAccidentsEnormousHurricanesRespondingBiodiversityCar AccidentHouse Fires Book:From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis Source: From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis
“What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.” PeopleSaidCountryGivenLateEconomicsCrisisEnormousOur CountryToo LateEstablishment Author:Bernie Sanders
“We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.” IfsLittlesLeftTermAnimalEconomyRight NowSolutionsAreasCrisisPopulationTerroristEnormousLocalsParksPocketsIllegalDestroyingFundingWildlifeZoosHabitatNational ParksTraffickingInsurgencySyndicate Author:David Jeremiah Barron
“The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.” ImportantWholeFacesHumanityProcessNaturalPrinciplesEconomyCivilizationHealthyAspectCrisisFundamentalsEnormousOrganizedHealthy LivingGlobalizationDemiseFundamental Principles Author:Elisabet Sahtouris
“All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.” IfsMenWorldMadeMomentsTodayFormHumanityCrisisEnormousGermanyGlobal WarmingToday's World Author:Adam Hochschild
“Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.” ChanceLeaderCasesDoubtInfluenceWillingLowsPressureRegardCrisisWestWesternFinancialRussiaEnormousFundAssetsIntervention Author:Garry Kasparov
“Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.” NeedsGivenTechnologyCivilizationMoonCrisisEnvironmentalDebtEnormousGoodbyeCivilisationSaying GoodbyeEnvironmental Crisis Author:Muhammad Yunus
“In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.” IfsThinkingBelieveStillsStatesProblemAmericaPoliticsGivenI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesAudienceDangerousSolutionsCrisisStartingObstaclesSolveEnormousOpeningDenialDiscussionGlobal WarmingHopefulAppropriateCategoriesBubblesRepresentationUnited States Of AmericaPresentationStarting PointOpening UpFactualUnreality Author:Al Gore