Quotes About Sustainability

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

We'll continue to heal human bodies through biotechnology but we'll also increasingly feed, clothe and house the world through bioengineered systems. Ultimately, there's no reason why live animals should be used in any part of our food or goods chain and we're working to make that a reality.

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

I was always a girl who loved animals and cared about the environment - um, I totally recycled at home and turned the lights off every time I left! But it wasn't until I met the love of my life, Philippe Cousteau, that I realized every thing we do, buy and use makes a difference in the world... for better or worse.

There are many people who are unable to eat even a single meal in a day and it is our responsibility to help in whatever way we can.

This plastic doesn't go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to be fragmented into these small and dangerous microplastics to me seems like an unacceptable scenario.

It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.

I mean, people aren't continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don't want to. We aren't destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

We are reaching a stage where the source of food has become markets and supermarkets. On a sub-conscious level, we are becoming unaware of the original source, which is land.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.

My job as a mayor is to look 10, 15, 20 years into the future and think not just about my generation, but about my children's generation and my unborn grandchildren and think - what is the kind of economy that they're going to to inherit and what are we doing today to prepare ourselves for that?

If we hand over a planet with an uncertain future, history will not forgive us.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

The future belongs to nations who have grains not guns.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children