Citas de Jonathon Porritt

• The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

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  Lying, Heart, Earth Day

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• La paz, la no violencia, los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente: ojalá todo el mundo los viera como el todo sin fisuras que son.

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  Futuro, Derechos, Visión

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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

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  Powerful, Future, Ideas

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• If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

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  Future, Mean, Vision

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• El futuro será verde, o no será en absoluto

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  Future, Vision, Green

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• Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

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  Nature, Animal, Priorities

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• Nunca vamos a asustar a la gente para que viva de forma más sostenible. Tenemos que ser capaces de demostrar lo dinámico y ambicioso que podría ser un mundo así...

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  Futuro, Personas, Visión

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• It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

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  Empresa, Real, Responsabilidad

  "Sustainability is central to survival" by Jonathan Porritt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2006.

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• ...los valores fundamentales que sustentan el desarrollo sostenible -interdependencia, empatía, equidad, responsabilidad personal y justicia intergeneracional- son la única base sobre la que puede construirse cualquier visión viable de un mundo mejor...

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  Responsibility, Justice, Empathy

  Jonathon Porritt (2012). “Capitalism as If the World Matters”, p.347, Routledge

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• As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

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  Business, Opposites, Keys

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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

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  Future, Heart, Vision

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• Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

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  Issues, Environmental, Climate

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• A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

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  Years, Growth, Usual

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• Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

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  Future, Issues, People

  "Why do we play down the horror of climate change?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may be painful, but it will be nothing compared with the crises we will face if we continue to grow in a way that threatens the life-support systems on which we rely

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  Support Systems, Foundation, May

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• What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest

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  Progress, Skins, Minorities

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• ...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

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  Future, Drawing, Vision

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• We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

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  Running, Climate, World

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• I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

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  Children, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Go green: have fewer kids, says environmentalist" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2009.

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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!

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  Future, Mean, Vision

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• La enorme arrogancia de las empresas que desarrollan cultivos transgénicos y su determinación de destruir la línea de responsabilidad que vincula al desarrollador con el producto es impresionante. Cuando algo salga mal, como inevitablemente ocurrirá, los que se han posicionado en contra de los organismos modificados genéticamente saldrán muy beneficiados.

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  Determination, Taken, Gmos

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• La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha publicado recientemente unos datos que demuestran que cada persona con sobrepeso provoca la emisión de una tonelada adicional de CO2 al año. Con mil millones de personas con sobrepeso en el mundo -de las cuales al menos 300 millones son obesas-, eso supone mil millones de toneladas adicionales.

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  Years, Data, Organization

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• The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today

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  Climate, Banking, World

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• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

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  Business, Believe, Recovery

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• I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

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  Niños, Pensar, Dos

  "Go green: have fewer kids, says environmentalist" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2009.

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