Quotes About Crisis

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

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

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

My genuine belief is that if we can get through the eurozone crisis from a political point of view, we've got a lot of engines that can drive our economy, that will restore confidence and get us moving on.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

Climate change is very real.

The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact.

Climate change is a reality.

Climate change respects no borders.

Climate change is ravaging our cities - we can't just let that happen.

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of their debt. Nine in 10 reported experiencing anxiety.

The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Climate change has far-reaching consequences for our own survival on this planet. As an issue, it overrides everything else.

What has happened to America's survival instincts?

We must go beyond talking about the survival of the government, because political stability in Haiti is the most important thing for us.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.