Maude Barlow famous quotes

03-24-2025

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
-- Maude Barlow

#Water #Faster
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. 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. Economic freedom - not democracy, and not ecological stewardship - is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.
-- Maude Barlow

#Heart #Air #Water
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,
-- Maude Barlow

#Real #Issues #Environmental
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

#Future #Humanity #Alternatives
Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.
-- Maude Barlow

#Growth #Assuming #Resources
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.
-- Maude Barlow

#Health #Air #Water
The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History
-- Maude Barlow

#World #Rich #Poor
There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.
-- Maude Barlow

#Water #Today #Way
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.
-- Maude Barlow

#Thinking #Ecosystems #Priorities
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

#Ecosystems #Water #Environmental
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.
-- Maude Barlow

#Book #Thinking #Water

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