Top 1200 Ecological Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we address population growth sooner rather than later. Efficiency improvements, increased use of renewable resources and less waste in themselves are no longer sufficient to put us back into credit

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

CNN doesn't waste time trying to solve a crisis or educate the viewer.

We have a workforce crisis across the NHS with around 100,000 vacancies.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of shopping and buying local.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.

Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights.

As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now.

It is still true that the life we have created for ourselves on this earth is not working. Not one of the systems we have put into place in our world is functional - not the political, not the economical, not the ecological, not the educational, not the social, and not the spiritual. None of them are producing the outcomes we say we want. In fact, it's worse. They are producing the outcomes we say we don't want.

I don't know any 21-year-old who's not having an existential crisis.

The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

As Members of Congress, we have a duty to elevate the discourse and unify during times of crisis.

That's all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

I'm in crisis. I'm about to bump with a five-foot chino-chicano.

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.

You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters. From that point on, I migrated by the 1950s into anarchism, increasingly emphasizing decentralization. Also, I made the all-important step of bridging my social philosophy with ecology. I did that in 1952 and went on to write a whole series of books developing an anarcho-ecological approach.

Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.