Quotes About Sustainability

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.

The world was not infinite, and yet a population could aspire to become so; it could (and would) expand well beyond its own limits of sustainability, and would continue to do so until it collapsed.

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

In an environment of turbulent change, as de Geus famously wrote: "The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

CAFOs house them as tightly as possible where they never see grass or sunlight. If you can envision one thousand chickens in your bathroom, in cages stacked to the ceiling, you're honestly getting the picture. (Actually a six-foot by eight room could house 1,152).