Development Quote by James Lovelock Download Open image “So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.” — James Lovelock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Development Drivel Meaningless Motivation Sustainable development
Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
'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… — Don Johnston Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect… — Sara Parkin Copy Share Image
That the word 'sustainable' can be a bit intimidating, but it's just about keeping an eye on your daily decisions. — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo.… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets. — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“City wisdom became almost entirely centered on the problems of human relationships, in contrast to the wisdom of any natural tribal group, where relationships… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“When we burn fossil fuel for energy we are, in qualitative terms, doing nothing more wrong than burning wood. Our wrongdoing, if that is… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle.… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't… — Eddie Bravo Copy Share Image
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
