Miriam Makeba Quotes

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.

Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

If the principle product of the Middle East were broccoli, we would not worry about the Middle East.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the legal definition, but they represent a major humanitarian and human rights challenge, as well as a major challenge for world politics.

We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

What would happen if we withdrew? Anarchy and confusion.

The United States has consumed in the last 50 years more natural resources than the rest of the entire human race for all of history.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

The causes of war are the same as the causes of competition among individuals: acquisitiveness, pugnacity, and pride; the desire for food, land, materials, fuels, mastery. The state has our instincts without our restraints.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture, and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

The real obstacle to progress in Nigeria is not a lack of resources; it is who controls them and how they are used.

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.

We must be cognizant of the fact that the absence of economic rationality and perpetual political instability in our societies prevent us from fully benefiting from our resources as well as capabilities. In the extreme case, we find ourselves in devastating wars. Our conflict-ridden geography has substantially undercut our ability to develop economically. Natural wealth, including oil revenues has been wasted and the focus of attention has been other than human development