Quotes About Sustainability

North America's natural gas base, now estimated at 3,000 trillion cubic feet, could provide for current levels of consumption for over a hundred years—plus.

new era" for Volkswagen.12 The company announced that it would launch at least seventy-five all-electric vehicles by 2028. "The future belongs to electric drive," said Diess. "Without EVs, we can't win the battle against climate change." He also pledged that the company would become "carbon neutral across the whole supply chain.

It has strong environmental appeal, although in some places it is running on coal-generated electricity. This would make those EVs what some call "EEVs"—"emissions elsewhere vehicles.

To get exponential returns, forget learning the latest thing. Instead, focus on what lasts.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won't end because we run out of oil.

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

T]he whole human population of the world cannot live on imported food. Some people some where are going to have to grow the food. And where ever food is grown the growing of it will raise the same two questions: How do you preserve the land in use? And how do you preserve the people who use the land? The farther the food is transported, the harder it will be to answer those questions correctly.

A nuclear reactor is a proposed solution to the energy problem. But like all big-technological solutions, this one solves a single problem by causing many... A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense.

Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together?

This is the justice that we are learning from the ecologists: you cannot damage what you are dependent upon without damaging yourself.

Soon the majority of the world's people will be living in cities. We are now obliged to think of so many people demanding the means of life from the land, to which they will no longer have a practical connection, and of which they will have little knowledge. We are obliged also to think of the consequences of any attempt to meet this demand by large-scale, expensive, petroleum-dependent technological schemes that will ignore local conditions and local needs.

we must not speak or think of the land alone or of the people alone, but always and only of both together. If we want to save the land, we must save the people who belong to the land. If we want to save the people, we must save the land the people belong to.