Paul Hawken Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.

  Paul Hawken

  Simple, People, Trying

  "The Ecology of Commerce". Book by Paul Hawken, 1993.

• The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

  Paul Hawken

  Inspiring, Future, Intelligent

• Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Degradation, Today

  Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Speech, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

• We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.

  Paul Hawken

  Nuclear, Use, Waste

  "Natural Capitalism". www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.

  Paul Hawken

  Dark, Order, Environmental

• It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.

  Paul Hawken

  Humanity, Suffering, Earth

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