Sustainable Development Quotes - Page 5

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

  Fred Hoyle

  Future, Taken, Emotional

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

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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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• If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

  Peter Ustinov

  Sarcastic, Future, Sarcasm

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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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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• 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 politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

  Simon Barnes

  Future, Thinking, Years

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• Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long

  Malcolm Brinded

  Business, Issues, Long

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• We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

  Elliot Morley

  Future, Vision, Generations

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• The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

  Sunita Narain

  Future, Choices, Growth

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• The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit

  Dave Hampton

  Future, Two, People

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• The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

  David Miliband

  Future, Vision, Get Better

  "'We nearly threw it away. We must be more radical'". Interview with Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2006.

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• The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right

  Donella Meadows

  Nature, Future, Technology

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• On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Development, Literacy

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• ...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

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

  Phil Harding

  Future, Vision, Progress

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• Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Limited Resources

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• When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don't need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century

  Tony Blair

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Heart, Development

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• We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

  Hilary Benn

  Future, Vision, World

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• A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

  Thabo Mbeki

  Future, Islands, Sea

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• I spend most of my time in South Korea but at least one-third of my time is spent traveling around the world, meeting people, speaking about climate change and sustainable development and trying to foster global citizenship especially for young people. What I observe is there clearly is a need for global citizenship. That is exactly right. We are having troubles around the world. We need global vision.

  Ban Ki-moon

  People, Vision, Trying

  Source: wwd.com

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• There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Real, Health

  Gro Harlem Brundtland's speech to the International Conference on Public Health in Bergen, Oslo, www.who.int. June 16, 2003.

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• I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

  Jaime Lerner

  Running, Writing, Guy

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• 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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