Quotes About Crisis

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

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

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.