“If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.” IfsWorldTwoWarLightGovernmentAmericaOrderNationsCommonCenturyProudSurvivalThirdsFundamentalsNuclearSensesThanksWar Of The WorldsBranchesSomedayExecutivesYieldWorld War IiWorld War ICatastropheSovereigntyParliamentColonyWorld OrderCommon GoodThirteenPrecedentJudiciaryWorld GovernmentBranches Of Government Author:Walter Cronkite
“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.” TryingHumansArtEnergyNaturalLossDealsEnvironmentSurvivalDisasterGet AwayCatastropheNatural Disaster Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
“Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.” MenWorldNeedsSelfHumanityNaturalWealthEqualSurvivalPercentTwentiesEnvironmentalPsychologicalLuxuryStabilityDisplayCatastropheEightyPercentagesStewardshipNatural WorldEcologicalPsychological Needs Author:Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
“The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival is even possible. Environmental catastrophe, including war, maybe pandemics, these are very serious issues and they can't be addressed within the current structure of institutions. That's almost given. There have to be real significant changes, and only really effective popular mass-based movements can introduce and carry forward such initiatives, as indeed did happen during the 1930s.” WarRealChoicesSeriousSurvivalEnvironmentalDetermineSignificantDecentBeing RealIntroducingInitiativeCatastrophe1930s Author:Noam Chomsky
“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.” LiteratureTermParticularComfortSurvivalNotionCatastrophe Author:Iris Murdoch
“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.” Would BeValuesSoundCommunityMillionsThousandDegreesDiversitySurvivalHundredTwentiesSpeciesFactorsEcologyCatastropheTemperature Author:Daniel Quinn
“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHappensAbleUsedFightingStrongQualityGoneWindSurvivalBraveThemeSurvivorLackingCatastropheUpheavalGumption Author:Margaret Mitchell
“There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.” TwoWarProblemSurvivalSpeciesEnvironmentalNuclearCatastropheNuclear War Author:Noam Chomsky