Jonathon Porritt Quotes

#1. I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

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#2. Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

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#3. We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

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#4. Deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

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#5. 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 world could be

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#6. The future will be green, or not at all

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#7. If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

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#8. As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

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#9. The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

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#10. It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

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#11. Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

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#12. The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

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#13. Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

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#14. Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

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#15. What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest

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#16. We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

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#17. I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

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#18. Living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!

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