Quotes About Sustainability

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.

At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

We have, here in California, among the most ambitious climate goals in the country. It's not just our political leaders or our regulators that really wants these things.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

When you see that charger in the wall, you have to now say okay that's, that's contributing to global-warming pollution, I have to pull that charger out of the wall.

The data show it's possible to grow the economy without growing pollution.

Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because things aren't working very well for a majority of the world's population or the environment.

I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.