Quotes About Sustainability

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.