Jeffrey Sachs Challenges Quotations

Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development