Quotes About Sustainability

A tank full of life and a running tap.

If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.