“All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.” IfsNaturalEffortPovertyEnvironmentDevelopmentResourcesEnvironmentalDefeatPursueVainOur EnvironmentDegradationNatural ResourcesSustainable DevelopmentNatural EnvironmentEnvironmental DegradationResource Depletion Author:Kofi Annan
“Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.” EnoughNaturalPovertyConditionsTasksAggravation Author:Pope Francis
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.” ThinkingKnowsMenBelieveLooksLongSelfGovernmentLawPoliticalIndividualForceNaturalLibertyPovertyCrimeDevelopmentPeriodsExerciseElementsFlowVoteFundamentalsMiseryCampaignsConfusionReliefAnarchismAnarchistBeggingNatural LawPolitical CampaignPersonal LibertyChanges In SocietyNatural Elements Author:Lucy Parsons
“We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.” PeopleWorldNeedsNaturalPovertyStandardsResourcesRaisesEnvironmentalDestroyingNatural ResourcesStandards Of Living Author:Jane Goodall
“The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.” MenIdeasWarStarsNaturalPovertyCenturyConceptionPollutionCatastropheExplorersDevastation Book:Of A Fire On The Moon Source: Of A Fire On The Moon
“In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.” MenStatesMightEarthNaturalSituationPovertyEconomyEconomicEffectsProtectMassMen And WomenResourcesCurrentsCreatorExtremesTemptationNeverthelessConsumerismChasingAlliancesGenesisNatural ResourcesOverconsumptionProlonging Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.” GivingShouldMadeCareValuesFightingNaturalPovertyEnvironmentDependsResourcesOilRationalGasRevenueNatural ResourcesMineralsTinBoliviaExtractionAdded Value Author:Evo Morales