“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.” PeopleNeedsHumansSocialJusticeBehindsCasesEconomicMovementBecomingCivilizationConflictEssentialsSocial JusticeMental HealthEnvironmentalLeavingFavorsSustainabilityStableVersusProsperousJoiningHuman CivilizationEnvironmental Health Author:Edward Norton
“Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.” WantSocialGrowthJusticeEconomicAchieveDevelopmentExerciseOffersSocial JusticeEnvironmentalGovernanceFrameworkStewardshipEconomic GrowthPathwaysSustainable DevelopmentEnvironmental StewardshipFuture Growth Author:Ban Ki-moon
“The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.” MenWorldGivenJusticeHalfCompassionMoralCreationThis WorldProveLimitsConscienceAngelEnvironmentalGods WillVersionsBehaveBeastTensionJudaismArenaStewardshipDominion Author:Arthur Hertzberg
“If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.” IfsMaySaidNationsWealthJusticePovertyEnvironmentalStewardship Author:Thales
“I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldWritingSocialJusticeConsciousnessCompassionEmpathySocial JusticeEnvironmentalImpulseSustainability Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.” SufferingEnjoyCommunityJusticeMovementBenefitsFairsEnvironmentalBurdenEnvironmental Justice Author:Van Jones
“The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.” IfsKnowsWorldWantGivingTryingCareKidsNationsSocialEasyDifficultJusticeStruggleEconomicPlanetsDespairGiving UpSocial JusticeEnvironmentalHarmPeacefulSanityGrandchildrenOur PlanetGiving Up Is Not An OptionPeaceful WorldEconomic JusticeIrreparableIrreparable Harm Author:Bernie Sanders
“Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.” ShouldCountrySocialJusticeEconomicRacismEnvironmentalInstitutional RacismJustice For AllEnvironmental Justice Author:Bernie Sanders
“When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.” PeopleHas BeensJusticeEconomicMovementFieldsActivitySurvivalRiversEnvironmentalForestsDestroyedStolenOur EnvironmentBiodiversity Author:Vandana Shiva