Quotes About Sustainability

you never truly win a conservation battle - you just win the right to fight another day. Like an alcoholic, the environment is never saved. It always needs saving.

infinite games are constantly adjusted so that both players can remain standing.

As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods—food, clothing, tools—for their own use.

Besides, it's great to buy something you know you can use the rest of your life, then pass on to your grandkids, and that when those kids are old, it'll still be doing its job well. How many things are there like that left in life? Maybe good movies.

Money fixes everything, even nature, if there is enough of it.

I think the world is dying because we were dead to its astonishments pretty much. It'll be around but it will become less and less until it's finally compatible with our feelings for it.

If you really want me to give up my car or my air conditioner, you'd better prove to me first that the earth would otherwise be uninhabitable, Dr. Lave says. Me is you, I presume, whereas you refers to them. You as in me—that is, me, me, me—certainly strike a hard bargain. Uninhabitable the world has to get before you rein in your requirements

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

The world needs more trees.

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.

India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.

We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.

My goal is to go from the industrial food system toward a real food system where you understand what you are eating.

What the food industry should be talking about? Climate change. It should be talking about the industrialization of food. It should be talking about how are we gonna feed the kids at school.

Kerala is not a resource-rich State. This is a big challenge. Only if you have resources, you will have sound industries.

We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse.

Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it.

Infrastructure development is economic development.

If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.

People living through armed conflicts need infrastructure and services which will last, and the last thing on their mind is which budget line applies.