Best Environmental Crisis Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.”

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Book:The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

Source: The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

“The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.”

“The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual... what other word describes the collection of values and assumptions that determine our basic understanding of how we fit into the universe?”

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Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“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.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971

“If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.”

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Author:Stanley Krippner

“I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.”

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Author:Naomi Klein

“The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.”

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Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.”

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Author:Satish Kumar

“In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.”

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Author:Satish Kumar

“I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.”

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Author:Tom Shadyac

“The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.”

“In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate the "green virtues" which includes the virtue of cooperativeness. This would not bring about the best possible world but it would set us on the path of making it better.”

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Author:Dale Jamieson

“Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.”

“In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.”

“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.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.”

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Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.”

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Book:Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

Source: Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

“The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to - compliance”

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today”

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Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have built our household on the assumption that the natural household is simple and can be simply used. We have assumed increasingly over the last five hundred years that nature is merely a supply of 'raw materials,' and that we may safely possess those materials by taking them.... And so we will be wrong if we attempt to correct what we perceive as 'environmental' problems without correcting the economic oversimplification that caused them.”

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises”

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Author:Jonathon Porritt

“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.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“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.”

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Author:Walden Bello

“The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.”

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Author:Stewart Udall

“The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.”

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Author:Al Gore

“We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.”

“We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.”

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.”

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Author:Scott Westerfeld

“The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.”

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Author:Jean-Francois Cope

“The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the dizzying heights he once occupied... . with the coming of the environmental crisis, our relationship to society has changed. We cannot ... pretend that ... a hundred space spectaculars can restore things to what they were.”

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Author:Samuel Florman

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