Quotes About Sustainability

if we save the living world, we will also automatically save the physical world, because in order to achieve the first we must also achieve the second. But if we save only the physical world, which appears our present inclination, we will ultimately lose them both.

In Hebei Province, in the heart of China's northern grain belt, the average water level in the deep aquifer is dropping nearly three meters a year. Underground

more efficient than vegetable food.

Meat yields higher energy per gram eaten than does vegetation.

While our species continues to manufacture its radically different and untested all-human world, the rest of life should be allowed to endure, for our own safety. While preserving our own deep history, it will, if we choose to let it, continue on its own trajectory through evolutionary time. By thus maintaining two parallel worlds on the planet, humanity will ensure the survival and continued advanced of the rest of life, and of ourselves.

One planet, one experiment.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

To eat meat in a world where it is not required for sustenance is to do so out of malice. To consume any animal product purely for your own pleasure is to do so out of greed and arrogance.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

In short, a strong royal advisor class insists on stopping and thinking. And it tries, I think with growing success in modern times, to direct the wonderful, expansive energy of their society away from aggression and domination. Better to use that energy for creative inventions, exploration, and protection of the planet and the powerless.

What had they been thinking of, those people then? They had left their descendants almost no water and great mountains of uranium. What kind of inheritance was that? How did they think we were going to survive?

conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

C'era qualcosa di insostenibile nelle cose, nelle persone, nelle palazzine, nelle strade, che solo reinventando tutto come in un gioco diventava accettabile. L'essenziale, però, era saper giocare io e lei, io e lei soltanto, sapevamo farlo.

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

Better to live and sell something from own small shop or handcart in home country than to go abroad to stay or study and do part time job to sell anything from others store or super mart

Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big and good difference. A person who has no self-interest to do things for others makes a bigger and better difference. But, one who does everything for everyone for the sake of humanity without vested interest makes the biggest real difference for the best sustainability.

Far better than donating wealth to charity is making use of the same money in building organization that makes real, affordable product of superlative quality and also increases mass employment opportunity.

Poor farmers need merely actual support, not LIKEs vote on their photo on somebody's social media post.

Switching over from the usage of car and motorbike to bicycle for daily commuting within the city is only a befitting reply to the artificial fuel price hike happening regularly.

The only way to GO GREEN is to keep mind dust and dirt clean.

Javed Akhtar to remark, "One should never do too much good work in one year.

All sunshine makes a desert.

Humans aren't going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by primary emergencies, rich people benefit from the status quo, and the middle class are too obsessed with their own entitlement and the technological spectacle to do anything. The risk of runaway global warming is immediate. A drop in the human population is inevitable, and fewer people will die if collapse happens sooner.