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“If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.”

“It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.”

Enjoy Class Conditions Independent Crisis Prosperity Productions Permit Relative Capitalist Working Class Harbinger

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

“Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.”

“With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.”

Attention Focus Regard Crisis Threat Climate Climate Change International Hunger Productions Priorities Fragile Receiving Public Health Malnutrition Top Priorities Food Production

Author:Josette Sheeran

“To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.”

Want Mean Ends Suffering Evil Economics Crisis Productions Credit Cures Deception Combat Expansion Severe Banking Procedures Very Mean Misdirection

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.”

Mean Hands Social Taken Special Limits Function Crisis Productions Credit Driving Capitalist Vehicle Banking Distribution Banking System

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

“At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.”

World Enough Moments America Film Three Poor Successful Five Four Europe Crisis Productions Only In America

Author:Sophia Loren

“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.”

People Dies Energy Industry Essentials Sick Crisis Fundamentals Faults Environmental Productions Arise Agriculture Transportation Environmental Crisis

Author:Barry Commoner

“Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.”

Action Right Now Crisis Climate Climate Change Productions Critical Switching Organic Food Food Production

Book:Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe

Source: Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe

“However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.”

Ends Humanity Results Crisis Climate Response Environmental Climate Change Productions Global Warming Consumption Distribution Emergencies Thorough End Results Environmental Crisis Reorganisation

Author:Walden Bello