Quotes About Crisis

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And

But two days later, six hundred men were hospitalized with this strange disease. The hospital ran out of empty beds, and hospital staff began falling ill.

NATURE CHOSE to rage in 1918, and it chose the form of the influenza virus in which to do

For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis.

So the problems presented by a pandemic are, obviously, immense. But the biggest problem lies in the relationship between governments and the truth.

For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

risk communication." I don't much care for the term. For if there is a single dominant lesson from 1918, it's that governments need to tell the truth in a crisis. Risk communication implies managing the truth. You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

conditions such as these, terror follows fear.

This disease is no joke, to be made light of, but a terrible calamity pg 36

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

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

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

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.