David Miliband Quotes

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• Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the…
• First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and…
• Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed
• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third,…
• In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource…
• I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own…
• Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a…
• Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the…
• Everything about my politics has been about the future
• My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles,…
• ...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better
• "I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a…
• Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
• The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died…
• The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life…
• Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself…
• We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about…
• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the…
• You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying…
• In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

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