Calm Quote by Timothy Geithner

The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize…

— John Elkington

With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge of crisis,…

— Arthur Demarest

The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much…

— Christiana Figueres

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

— Jack Hyles

We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social…

— Ali Babacan

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or…

— Bill McKibben

If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can…

— Richard Heinberg

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're…

— Brit Marling

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…

— Jonathon Porritt

“And yet—this fascination with the future has generated its own antithesis, particularly in the so-called affluent or developed societies. There is a growing disenchantment…

— Arthur C. Clarke

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives…

— Douglas Coupland

Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how…

— Ellen MacArthur