Quotes About Sustainability

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no form of politics is worth our time until it helps struggling people get what they need, sustainably and reliably. All the better if you can do so without patriarchy and fundamentalism.

Spending would then average about $4.5 trillion per year between 2024 and 2050. Total clean energy investment spending for the full twenty-seven-year investment cycle would amount to about $120 trillion.

But from the point of view of the masters of mankind, it doesn't matter much—"as long as we make plenty of profit tomorrow, who cares if our grandchildren won't have a world to live in?

Part of the whole capitalist ethic is that the only thing that matters is how much money you make tomorrow: that's the crucial value of the system, profit for tomorrow. Not just profit, but the bottom line has to look good tomorrow. And the result is that planning for the future, and any kind of regulatory apparatus that would sustain the environment for the long-term, become impossible?and that means the planet is going to go down the tubes very fast.

Changing it without damaging it. If you cut down a tree, is what you're putting in its place worth the sacrifice?

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper, Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

Birds and deer are a silly luxury, and all the fish should be floating.

Like it or not, the road to Hell is paved with sustainable bamboo flooring.

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

It's not a big deal [...]. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. [...] every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

All around us, erosion and insects are just chewing up the world, never mind people and pollution. Everything biodegrades with or without you pushing.

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper," Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper." I

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper," Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

It's not a big deal, the way Dr. Marshall sees it. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. In the gold wash of the chapel, breathing her reasons into my ear, she asked, every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present? The

It's not a big deal, the way Dr. Marshall sees it. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. In the gold wash of the chapel, breathing her reasons into my ear, she asked, every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Don't think of this as extinction. Think of this as downsizing. For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti.

Man knows next to nothing about the ocean. And because of that, he doesn't respect it, and he is ruining it with overfishing, pollution, global warming, toxic algal blooms.