Quotes About Sustainability

Yes, but there was the land. Money and food are eaten and gone, and if there is not sun and rain in proportion, there is again hunger.

I don't know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

Everything I do is the environment.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

The modern human has mastered the art of building toxic homes and cities.

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

how fast will electric vehicles penetrate the global auto fleet? In 2019 they constituted less than 3 percent of total new car sales worldwide. But ambitions are high.

in a country in which almost three hundred million people live on the equivalent of $1.25 a day, poverty and economic growth cannot be separated from energy. The energy issues India faces reflect, in a giant-sized way, those of many developing countries.

Advanced manufacturing, including 3D printing, could have a major impact on energy use by reducing transportation costs. New technologies for buildings could make them much more energy efficient.

In Sierra Leone and many other sub-Saharan African nations, diamonds fueled conflict between different groups and helped to sustain civil wars, earning the label Blood Diamonds for the carnage brought about by the wars fought over their control. In Botswana, diamond revenues were managed for the good of the nation. The

The growth generated by extractive institutions is very different in nature from growth created under inclusive institutions, however. Most important, it is not sustainable. By their very nature, extractive institutions do not foster creative destruction and generate at best only a limited amount of technological progress. The growth they engender thus lasts for only so long. The Soviet experience gives a vivid illustration of this limit.

La lección más importante que se puede aprender es que las instituciones extractivas no pueden generar un cambio tecnológico sostenido por dos razones: la falta de incentivos económicos y la resistencia por parte de las élites.

The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.

Director of Ensuring the Future

Coffee could be smelled and tasted and touched. And it was a commodity, recession-proof. Next to gasoline, it might be one of the most recession-proof commodities of all.

If the farmer gets forty times the commodity rate, then what had been a break-even endeavor becomes a profession—and everyone involved could live with dignity and pride.