Maude Barlow Quotes

#1. Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,

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#2. We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

Maude Barlow

#3. Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.

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#4. Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

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#5. The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

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#6. Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

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#7. No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

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#8. There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

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#9. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

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#10. The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

Maude Barlow