Climate Quotes by Jonathon Porritt

9 Climate quotes by Jonathon Porritt

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Jonathon Porritt delivers nine short reflections on climate, blending activism with policy insight. This compact collection provides a succinct overview for readers interested in his perspective.

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We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad…

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Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

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Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

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If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

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It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to…

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Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than…

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"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water…

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The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply…

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Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children -…

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I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

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Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive…

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What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends…

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Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

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Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

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I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and…

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...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any…

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We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it…

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The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live…

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We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

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The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal…

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We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a…

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