Quotes About Crisis

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Instead of putting a firm hand on the wheel, many leaders seem unable to steer toward safe ports in the storm.

anything above 1.5°C will see the advent of a world plagued by intense summer heat, extreme drought, devastating floods, reduced crop yields, rapidly melting ice sheets and surging sea levels. A rise of 2°C and above will seriously threaten the stability of global society.

By 2025, 5 billion people will live in countries with inadequate water supplies. • Within 50 years all the world's great reefs may have been wiped out by higher sea temperatures.

In fact, there are half as many wild animals on the planet as there were in 1970, an awesome and mostly unnoticed silencing.

Climate change has become such a familiar term that we tend to read past it- it's part of our mental furniture, like urban sprawl or gun violence.

Put simply, between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question.

The planet has nearly 390 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We're too high. Forget the grandkids; it turns out this was a problem for our parents.

Here's the Stanford University researcher Rosamond Naylor, who conducted some of the most recent calculations: "I think what startled me the most is that when we looked at our historic examples there were ways to address the problem within a given year. People could always turn somewhere else to find food. But in the future there's not going to be any place to turn."61 It doesn't get any more basic than that.

Britain's Exeter University, a scientist named Kevin Anderson took the podium for a major address. He showed slide after slide, graph after graph, "representing the fumes that belch from chimneys, exhausts and jet engines, that should have bent in a rapid curve towards the ground, were heading for the ceiling instead." His conclusion: it was "improbable" that we'd be able

Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the LORD, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah" (2 Chronicles 20:3). He

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.

The end of the world is no time to keep the American people uninformed.

The crisis isn't over. The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one bad joke in the nonstop series of ExComm meetings is that Bobby Kennedy will soon be mayor of Havana.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

If oil prices will go too high, it will slow down the world economy and would trigger a global recession.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

So many diseases and illnesses have fundamental roots in the lack of clean water. Resolving the clean water crisis would mitigate a lot of problems.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Western medicine was developed for crisis and war, such as if you got shot or wounded, to put the soldier back on the battlefield. It works well for catastrophic situations, but it is absolutely ignorant about prevention and lifestyle.

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.