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Quotes from Jonathon Porritt

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
~ Jonathon Porritt
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?
~ Jonathon Porritt
The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.
~ Jonathon Porritt
I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.
~ Jonathon Porritt
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
~ Jonathon Porritt
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.
~ Jonathon Porritt
Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics
~ Jonathon Porritt
The future will be green, or not at all
~ Jonathon Porritt
If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't
~ Jonathon Porritt