Jonathon Porritt Quotes About Vision

• Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions rob its followers of reason and good sense. It has created unsustainable inequalities and threatened to tear apart the very fabric of society. More powerful than any religion, it has reached into every corner of the globe. It is consumerism

  Jonathon Porritt

  Powerful, Future, Ideas

• The future will be green, or not at all

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Vision, Green

• Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Rights, Vision

• ...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

  Jonathon Porritt

  Responsibility, Justice, Empathy

  Jonathon Porritt (2012). “Capitalism as If the World Matters”, p.347, Routledge

• Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Heart, Vision

• The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political indifference; now the bandwagon is abrim with politicians in catch-up mode. Once the media were semi-detached: now they're really getting stuck in. And they need to be! Many people are confused and disempowered, and the role of the media in getting then informed and engaged is critical

  Jonathon Porritt

  Confused, Future, Media

• We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, People, Vision

• ...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Mean, Vision

• If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Mean, Vision

• Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Issues, People

  "Why do we play down the horror of climate change?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

• ...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Drawing, Vision

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