Vision Quotes - Page 30

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

  David J. C. MacKay

  Future, Numbers, People

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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

  Future, Ignorance, Feelings

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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, Future, 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, Future, 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

  Future, Community, Support

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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, Future

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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, Matter

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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, Future, Differences

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

  Tim Yeo

  Future, Today, Climate

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

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• No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Future, Matter, May

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• Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

  Phil Harding

  Future, Environmental, Cohesion

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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, Environmental

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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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• 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

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• Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Future, Believe, Hands

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• Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party

  Al Gore

  Believe, Future, Party

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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, Future, Air

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• There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development

  Margot Wallstrom

  Future, Energy, Development

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• I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.

  Tony Blair

  Future, Thinking, People

  Blair's climate change speech, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

  Niall FitzGerald

  Future, Agriculture, May

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• We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

  Thabo Mbeki

  Future, Survival, Principles

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• For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

  Thabo Mbeki

  Future, Poverty, Firsts

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• The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

  Peter Drucker

  Paradox, Prophet, Shock

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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