“The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.” WayProblemBigsPovertyPlanetsGoes OnConflictDiseaseEnvironmentalSustainabilityDeclineBig ProblemsInterconnectedGlobal Poverty Author:Alex Steffen
“The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.” YearsFirstsEndsShowsProblemRunningWaterSeeingSeaHugeGoes OnCivilizationFlowRiversEnvironmentalChinaDecadesChineseDryYellowCradleShortage Author:Lester R. Brown
“I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't want to consider the injustices around me. I don't want any encounters with the disenfranchised. I want to say it's not my fault. But it is, it's yours and mine, and ours. We'd better figure out ways to spread some equity around if we want to go on living in a society that is at least semi-functional. It's a fundamental responsibility, to ourselves.” IfsThinkingWayWantResponsibilityFiguresMinesGoes OnDeserveFundamentalsFaultsEnvironmentalInjusticeSpreadEncountersSustainabilityEquityDisenfranchised Author:William Kittredge
“Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.” ShouldImportantEndsPurposeGivenRealizingResponsibilityCreationGoes OnCapacityPraiseEnvironmentalCaringScriptureEnd TimesStewardshipAdoration Author:Tony Campolo
“You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.” KnowsNeedsCareWaterRealizingCuttingAirTreeGoes OnWasteCommitmentConcernEnvironmentalTake CareAtmospherePoisonBusPollutionAlliancesCommitment To GodRubbishAir And Water Author:Oscar Romero
“The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening.” StatesProblemPoliticalSocialConsciousnessEconomicPlanetsGoes OnHappeningsEnvironmentalListsLeapTransitionEnteringStates Of ConsciousnessUpheavalMultiplying Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.” YearsGoes OnIncreaseEnvironmentalPopulationRatiosWorld PopulationPopulation Explosion Author:Thomas Malthus