Quotations
# "Prediction is very difficult, especially
about the future" - Niels Bohr
# "Preventing the collapse of human civilisation
requires nothing less than a wholesale transformation of dominant
cultural patterns. This transformation would reject consumerism ... and
establish in its place a new cultural framework centred on
sustainability" - from 'The State of the World 2010' published by
the Worldwatch Institute
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"To those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we
say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our
borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to
effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it" - Barack
Obama
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"Climate change is an act of aggression by the rich
world against the
poor" - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
# "Politics, economics and technology on their own
are not
enough. We must also tackle the roots of consumerism, consumption in
excess of sufficiency - the idolatrous addiction that masks our inner
emptiness and poisons deeper transformation. And so we must rekindle
community, put love back into public life, and thereby rescue hope from
the chasm of despair" - Alastair McIntosh, Quaker
# "When all the trees have been cut down,
When all the animals have been hunted,
When all the waters have been polluted,
When all the air is unsafe to breathe,
Only then will you discover that you
can't eat money"
Cree Indian proverb
# "It may seem impossible to imagine that a
technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy
itself, but that is what we are in the process of doing" -
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of 'Field Notes from a Catastrophe : Man,
Nature and Climate Change' Bloomsbury
# "No nation, however large or small, wealthy or
poor, can escape the impact of climate change" - Barack Obama
# "Cars are one of the greatest man-made threats to
human society" - Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon's book 'Two
Billion Cars : Driving Toward Sustainability', Oxford University Press
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