Future Quotes - Page 38

• We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Vision, Fuel

  "Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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• The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

  Phil Harding

  Vision, Storm, Needs

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• 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

  People, Vision, Scare

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• Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

  Phil Harding

  Vision, Progress, Cash

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• At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

  Roberto Unger

  Imagination, Vision, World

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• We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

  Prince Charles

  Grandchildren, Hands, Vision

  "Prince Charles on Grandchildren: Won't Leave Behind 'Poisoned Chalice'" by Emma Koonse, www.christianpost.com. January 7, 2013.

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• The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

  Prince Charles

  Moving, Vision, Hunters

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

  Jonathon Porritt

  Rights, Vision, Saws

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• The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

  Satish Kumar

  Gratitude, Air, Water

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

  Jonathon Porritt

  Issues, People, Vision

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

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• It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

  Desmond Tutu

  Vision, Fossils, Fuel

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• We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction

  James Hansen

  Sea, Ecosystems, People

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• In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

  David J. C. MacKay

  Numbers, People, Vision

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• We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

  James Lovelock

  Ignorance, Feelings, Vision

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• What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

  Ed Mayo

  Meaningful, Vision, Cooperation

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• We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Country, Vision, Needs

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• ...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to connect their faith to sustainable development and act accordingly, with the support of their institutions, the gains could be world-changing

  Ian Christie

  Community, Support, Vision

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• Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess

  Ian Christie

  Religious, Teaching, Play

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• Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

  Fred Hoyle

  Taken, Emotional, Vision

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

  George Alagiah

  Japan, Earthquakes, Vision

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• Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'

  Sara Parkin

  Mean, People, Vision

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• When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

  Ellen MacArthur

  Goal, Vision, Matter

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• Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition

  Ellen MacArthur

  Jobs, Oil, Profound

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• You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

  Wangari Maathai

  Real, Differences, Water

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• As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service

  Wangari Maathai

  Justice, Long, Political

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