“We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.” TogetherPovertyIssuesExampleDiseaseClimateEnvironmentalBrandsAddressesWorking TogetherPollutionDegradationEnvironmental Degradation Author:Simon Mainwaring
“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” ThinkingShouldImportantNatureNaturalEnvironmentSecurityResourcesEnvironmentalClimate ChangeDefenseCategoriesPollutionEcologyConservationPreservationNational SecuritySurroundingsOur EnvironmentMother EarthNatural ResourcesPlanet EarthEarth DayNatural EnvironmentNature And EnvironmentNatural ThingsSave Mother EarthGreen EarthNature ConservationWorld EnvironmentGreen LivingSustainable LivingSave The EnvironmentEnvironmental DegradationOne With NatureEco FriendlySave NatureEnvironmental PollutionSaving The EarthEnvironmental SustainabilityEarth FriendlyBuilt EnvironmentSaving Energy Author:Robert Redford
“Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.” HumansProblemGivenChallengesPovertyCreativityDiseaseEnvironmentalExtraordinaryMeaningfulCapabilityTranslateTechnologicalUnemploymentUnlimitedDegradationUnprecedentedEnvironmental Degradation Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.” WantDoeGrowthEconomicDiseaseTreatsEnvironmentalCuresTreatmentPhysiciansUnlimitedDegradationMaladyEnvironmental DegradationPrescribingDosage Author:Herman E. Daly
“The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.” HumansEconomyEnvironmentalMassiveEnginesDegradationEnvironmental Degradation Book:Endgame Source: Endgame
“Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.” WorldProblemNationsCrimeMovementEnvironmentalTerrorismBordersOrganizedCollaborationPhilanthropyRefugeeDegradationNarcoticsOverpopulationOrganized CrimeEnvironmental Degradation Author:Warren Christopher
“The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.” StillsLossEffortPovertyRolesEnvironmentDevelopmentEssentialsEnvironmentalIncludingDebateDiscussionInitiativeDegradationBiodiversityAccelerateEnvironmental DegradationTopsoil Author:Wangari Maathai
“In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.” PeopleWorldHumansProblemGovernmentAgeActorsChallengesResponsibilityTechnologyProgressInspireConflictDiseaseDignityCrisisEnvironmentalHungerBillionsDevelopingCrucialDeniedMinimumProvokingRequirementsCitizenshipDegradationPillarsHuman DignityInterdependenceHolding BackEnvironmental DegradationScience TechnologyShared Responsibility Author:Kofi Annan
“The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.” HumansWellsLongTermWaterHuman BeingsTechnologyAirDependsCreaturesWasteResourcesGardenEnvironmentalDefinitionsProductionsRationalWell BeingLong TermSoilGardeningPollutionDegradationErosionDependableBiosphereEnvironmental DegradationFood ProductionSoil Erosion Author:Eliot Coleman
“We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it” PeopleWorldFoundChanceSituationVisionMillionsRichHavensFutureWeaponsCapacityEnvironmentalNuclearDestroyedNuclear WeaponsDegradationSustainable DevelopmentEnvironmental Degradation Author:Tony Blair
“The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.” GovernmentCausesEnvironmentMovementOughtAppreciateGreenEnvironmentalClimate ChangeSymptomsBeltsDegradationEnvironmental DegradationCustodians Author:Wangari Maathai
“It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.” WorldMeanDoneTodayPovertyClearSecurityEnvironmentalAgricultureDegradationEnvironmental DegradationFood Security Author:Irene Rosenfeld
“There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.” LongSocialPowerfulPovertyWeakEnvironmentalInjusticeOppressionInequalityDegradationEnvironmental DegradationSocial Injustice Author:Dalai Lama
“Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'” ThinkingUseHumanityChallengesAskingSuicideEnvironmentalHappy LifeDegradationCommitting SuicideEnvironmental Degradation Author:Pope Francis
“Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.” WellsTechnologyDemandEnvironmentalOilDependenceDegradationAggravationNew TechnologyStartersEnvironmental DegradationForeign Oil Author:Sherwood Boehlert
“A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.” PeopleHumansChildrenUseBodyReligionSocialReligiousIssuesGrowingRightsMoralityRacismResearchAssumingEnvironmentalAtheistHuman RightsTortureEthicalSexismHittingPenaltiesPeersDecencyDeath PenaltyDegradationHomophobiaAnti SemitismSocial ScienceEnvironmental DegradationScience ResearchNon Religious Author:Gregory S. Paul