Top 1200 Ecological Crisis Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.

My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.

Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.

Long before the migrant crisis, Sweden had codified its form of humanitarianism into the country's domestic and foreign-policy framework.

For years, elites in both political parties have ignored the illegal immigration crisis growing on America's southern border.

I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.

I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.

In the Army, we address a crisis by identifying critical objectives, planning a response, marshaling resources and communicating the plan clearly.

The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.

Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool.

Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

President Obama's Department of Education pledged to solve the student debt crisis, but it was utterly inept in its effort to address the issue.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

[Hillary] Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before.

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't see.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

The COVID-19 crisis has presented disproportionate risks to Central Virginia's seniors, and it has created extremely stressful situations for their families.

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.