Quotes About Crisis

by the end of this century, CO2 levels could reach a level not seen

by a pair of herpetologists. It was titled "Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction?

Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.

Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed

Extinction rates soar, and the texture of life changes.

The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that "Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims." A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

with the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.

The work is going well, but it looks like it might be the end of the world.")

In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.

It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion.

There are three major hurdles to overcome in crisis: dealing with pain; working with your attitude; and using the crisis as a wake-up and a cleanup call.

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

destruction. Peru's President Castañeda

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

By the winter of 1916, German civilians were starving, even starving to death. Unless the war ended very soon, Germany faced catastrophe even if not a single Allied soldier advanced another step.

Once a free people have reached this point, Machiavelli concluded, there is no hope left. Their empire may expand, as Rome's did under the emperors. The wealth can continue to pour in. The arts may flourish; the political factionalism makes for dramatic entertainment, while people ignore the underlying rot. But such a society is doomed, unless a major crisis forces a change in its thinking.

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

In giving us the privilege of fasting as well as praying, God has added a powerful weapon to our spiritual armory. In her folly and ignorance, the church has largely looked upon it as obsolete. She has thrown it down in some dark corner to rust, and there it has lain forgotten for centuries. An hour of impending crisis for the church and the world demands its recovery!

Život ztratil význam. Kdyby aspo? svitla nad?je na válku nebo povstání, jenže sv?tová situace se v posledních letech uklid?ovala. Což samo o sob? je dobré, ale pro profesionálního vojáka to zna?í nezam?stnanost.

The problem with this war is not the war itself, it is the mayhem it brings.

En cualquier caso, unos y otros estaban convencidos de que la monarquía iba de cráneo y cuesta abajo; y así, el republicanismo (en contra de lo que piensan hoy muchos idiotas, siempre hubo republicanos de izquierdas y de derechas) se extendía por la rúa tanto como por los cuarteles.

Por eso la cuestión primordial, la primera y la básica de todas las cuestiones venezolanas, la que está en la raiz de todas las otras, y la que ha de ser resuelta antes si las otras han de ser resueltas algún día, es la de ir construyendo una nación a salvo de la muerte petrolera. Una nación que haya resuelto victoriosamente su crisis petrolera que es su verdadera crisis nacional

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.