Borrowing Quote by Kevin McCloud

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless…

— Phil Harding

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not…

— Donella Meadows

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about…

— Evo Morales

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world…

— Wangari Maathai

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

— Richard Lamm

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

— Maurice Strong

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has…

— Barry Commoner

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out…

— Jon Runyan

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our…

— Artur Davis

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

— John Doerr

As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy…

— Paul Tonko

We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon,…

— Michael Pollan