“Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.” PeopleYoungLostRiskGenerationsEconomicCrisisWestCatastropheEbolaWest Africa Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.” JobsLostEconomicMy FamilyCrisisAffectedBad TimesEconomic Crisis Author:Joey Badass
“Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.” HumansLongWholeLostEffortSubjectsCrisisEnvironmentalConnectedImprovementWarningSustainabilityReplacedAvoidedPaymentEcosystemsDelayedEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.” PeopleWorldMayImportantSelfSufferingFoundLostAnswersKnownPressureCrisisRealizationMeaninglessWorldlyAttainmentSense Of Self Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and other crises? Or we pull together as families and communities to create a brighter future?” WayWarTogetherPastCoursesLostForceCommunityEconomicCrisisBrighterUpheavalBrighter Future Author:Oliver DeMille
“When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to transition to clean energy, they didn't have any fuel to burn, and they also had to transition to a healthy food system, an organic system - their economy is crashing, this was not a planned transition. This was a crisis, but a crisis nonetheless, in which pollution went away. And it's very instructive to see what happened to their health.” ChoicesEnergyLostEconomyHappenedHealthyCrisisUnionsCleanFuelTransitionSovietPollutionSoviet UnionFossilsCubaFossil FuelClean EnergyPipelineHealthy Food Author:Jill Stein
“When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, and so the global economy shrunk. That hit South Africa very hard, because then the export markets shrunk, and that includes China, which has become one of the main trade partners with South Africa. Also, the slowdown in the Chinese economy affected South Africa. The result was that during that whole period, South Africa lost something like a million jobs because of external factors.” HardWholeGovernmentJobsLostResultsMillionsEconomyGrowingPeriodsCrisisTradeSouthFinancialChinaPartnersFactorsChineseAffectedSouth AfricaGlobal EconomyFinancial Crisis Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.” MenFeelingsNextLostPresidentLevelsNeededVictoryWalkingCrisisDefeatVicesCaliforniaPresidencyComebackPlungeVice PresidentPrecipice Author:Oliver Stone
“Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.” FoundLostCrisisTemperArriving Author:Josh McDowell
“...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.” PeopleThinkingFeelsIdeasBigsHappensPainLostTvsReaderCrisisMessNo IdeaMassiveWorthwhileTriggersBig ChangesPersonal ChangeReader's Digest Author:Douglas Coupland
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.” WayWellsHas BeensWarHardUseHomeCareAgeSchoolJobsChoicesEnergyLostNationsEconomyViolenceFailingPlanetsUnderstoodEvidenceConsequenceHatredCrisisGreedHealth CareEach DayReachingCollectivesMidstShedNew AgeOur PlanetAdversariesIrresponsibility Author:Barack Obama
“On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.” WayRealSpiritualPoliticalUsedPassionLostSocialInterestPartyToo MuchAtheismConceptsCrisisWestAtheistPossessionEastSupremeDestroyedReformSpiritual LifeEntityRulingDeprivedRenaissanceSocial ReformDealingsIrresponsibilityPrecious Possessions Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.” PeoplePoliticalFightingLostSolutionsCrisisSolveRelyIslamicOppositionRegimesSyriaExtremistLegitimacyAssadIsil Author:Barack Obama
“The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress” MadeTogetherFacesValuesLostDecisionPowerfulResponsibilitySituationGroupsShareMembersEthicsAdvantageStressPressureCrisisAriseIntensePsychologicalDecisions MadeBusiness Ethics Author:Irving Janis
“With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.” PeopleThinkingHumansTodayHouseLostChanceMoralMovementBrokenRepublicanLaborVoteCrisisMajorityEmbraceCongressImmigrationRepresentativesCitizenshipArrestedRippedDemographicsHouse Of RepresentativesPollingDeportationLabor MovementMoral Crisis Author:Arlene Holt Baker