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'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are… — Don Johnston
If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't — Jonathon Porritt
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The future has no shelf life — Warren G. Bennis
You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it — James Callaghan
There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land — Paul McCartney
Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand — Confucius
Treat the Earth as though we intend to stay here — Crispin Tickell
The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you… — Laozi
The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put… — William J. Clinton
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at… — Tony Blair
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear… — Tony Blair
We know the problems.... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will — Tony Blair
Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not… — Margaret Beckett
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives — Margaret Beckett
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a… — Bill McKibben
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality… — Kofi Annan
The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem… — Douglas Adams
We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can… — Sherwood Boehlert
Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come. — John Spence

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