Quotes About Sustainability

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

We are the environment.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

COâ'' emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.