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  • It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

    "Sustainability is central to survival" by Jonathan Porritt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2006.
  • I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.

    Believe   Dirty   Oil  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

  • The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

  • The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

    Country   Unique   Two  
    Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.
  • I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

    Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.
  • Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.

  • I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

  • The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

    Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
  • Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

  • All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the dizzying heights he once occupied... . with the coming of the environmental crisis, our relationship to society has changed. We cannot ... pretend that ... a hundred space spectaculars can restore things to what they were.

    Fall   Technology   Space  
  • In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

    Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.
  • Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.

  • The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to - compliance

  • The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

  • The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

  • For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.

    Philosophy   Book   Men  
  • The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual... what other word describes the collection of values and assumptions that determine our basic understanding of how we fit into the universe?

    Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.12, Routledge
  • Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.

    War   Technology   Hands  
    Source: www.socialistalternative.org
  • The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

    Children   Real   Rain  
    Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.16, Routledge
  • The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

  • If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

    Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.
  • The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

  • The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

    Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
  • In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate the "green virtues" which includes the virtue of cooperativeness. This would not bring about the best possible world but it would set us on the path of making it better.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

  • The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

    Jean Houston (2016). “Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.
  • It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

    Nixon, Richard M. (1972). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971”, p.132, Best Books on
  • However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.

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