Unsustainable Quotes

64 quotes by 58 authors

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world… — William J. Clinton
...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit… — William J. Clinton
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that… — Pete Hegseth
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing… — Tony Blair
What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that… — Barack Obama
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the… — Ben Bernanke
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable — Jeremy Irons
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world. — John Robbins
The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths,… — Freundel Stuart
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… — Jonathon Porritt
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki
'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
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
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have… — Maurice Strong
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? — Ken MacLeod
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not a… — Lester R. Brown
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into… — Mark Steyn
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption… — Maurice Strong

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