“How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?” KindEnvironmentDiseaseIntelligentMethodThreatSpeciesUnwantedSilent SpringDisease And Death Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.” IfsHumansLongWarGrowthTermSeriousDiseaseMajorsSurvivalIncreaseThreatPopulationDisasterLong TermControlledStarvationPopulation GrowthHuman Population Author:Prince Philip
“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.” FoundForceWaterDecisionPovertyFourRiskSecurityDiseaseHundredUniversalThreatClimateClimate ChangeIncludingTerrorismInequalityAddressesMakersDiverseFamineLoomingDecision MakersFresh Water Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson
“First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.” FirstsStatesGovernmentNationsUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesSeriousProtectDiseaseFundamentalsThreatFederal GovernmentVirusesWellbeingPublic HealthHealth And Wellbeing Author:Marco Rubio
“You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place.” MovingDangerousSeriousDiseaseThreatProductionsMeatHospitalsMeat Production Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves.” SelfStatesUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsTerribleDiseaseEuropeRegardThreatFundamentalismYounger GenerationRecruit Author:Ninian Smart
“How do women still go out with guys, when you consider the fact that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women. Globally and historically, we're the number one cause of injury and mayhem to women... You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.” KnowsMenHeartStillsGuyCausesWomenNumbersGreaterDiseaseThreatProfoundInjuryHeart DiseaseMayhem Author:Louis C. K.
“It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.” ThinkingWorldMadeHumanityEvilCasesAtheismEvolutionDiseaseHarderMadThreatPositive AtheismAidsCowsVirusesFashionableApocalypticHuman EvolutionSmallpoxMad Cow Disease Author:Richard Dawkins
“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.” WritingPowerfulDiseasePicksThreatPatientThreateningImpatientIrresistibleVirusesGreat Writers Book:In Defence of T. S. Eliot Source: In Defence of T. S. Eliot