Jonathon Porritt Quotes

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• I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.
• I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how…
• The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year.…
• Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics
• We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be…
• A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems…
• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests,…
• It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and…
• Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no…
• 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 world…
• Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
• Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues
• The future will be green, or not at all
• ...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations
• Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions…
• Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived…
• The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political…
• ...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may…
• If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't
• As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly…

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