Michael Meacher Quotes

• I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

  Michael Meacher

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

  Michael Meacher

  Children, Future, Our World

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• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which they will break and then you will get a complete and massive change in the climate in which the survival of human species might not be compatible.

  Michael Meacher

  Thinking, Survival, Climate

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.

  Michael Meacher

  Growth, Excess, Goes On

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• This war on terror is bogus.

  Michael Meacher

  War, Terror, War On Terror

  "This war on terrorism is bogus" by Michael Meacher, www.theguardian.com. September 06, 2003.

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• Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even bigger cuts if we're going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity...The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.

  Michael Meacher

  Country, Cutting, Kyoto Protocol

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