Sustainable Development Quotes - Page 6

• Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

  Maurice Strong

  Numbers, Development, Accepted

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Environmental, Development, Hunger

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• People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is development." And I said, "That is not development, definitely not sustainable development, definitely not responsible development. People need fresh air. They can do without buildings. They can do without concrete. But they cannot do without fresh air.

  Wangari Maathai

  Children, Air, Play

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• I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

  Nico Tortorella

  Art, School, College

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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

  Future, Mean, People

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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

  Future, Goal, Vision

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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, Future, Oil

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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

  Future, Justice, Long

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• If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

  George Meyer

  Lying, Future, Men

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• The future will be green, or not at all

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Vision, Green

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• his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.

  Paul Hawken

  Future, Air, Broken

  "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times". Book by Paul Loeb, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

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• It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

  Barack Obama

  Future, Vision, Important

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• Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!

  Dave Hampton

  Children, Future, Games

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• It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

  Tim Yeo

  Future, Vision, Today

  "Benn announces 'stronger' climate change bill" by Rosalind Ryan, Elizabeth Stewart, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.

  Walden Bello

  People, Important, Development

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• During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Years, Directors, Development

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• If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Nature, Long, Community

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• Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

  Sha Zukang

  Opportunity, Our Generation, Giving

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• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Order, African Union

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• Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

  Tony Blair

  Agriculture, Environment, Wit

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

  Tony Blair

  Future, People, Vision

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• We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

  Tony Blair

  Future, Political Will, Issues

  "Can she sustain it?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.

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