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Jonathon Porritt

Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is a leading British environmentalist and writer. He is known for his advocacy of the Green Party of England and Wales. Porritt frequently contributes to magazines, newspapers and books, and appears on radio and television.

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Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

Environment, Future, Rights, Saw, Vision

. . . 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!

Choose, Future, Live, Living, Mean, Vision

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

Badge, Business, Real, Responsibility, Simply, Wear

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

Drawing, Effect, Future, Generations, Vision

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

Accelerating, Climate, Sorted, Today, Way, Wealth

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

Future, Issues, People, Progress

We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

Aspirational, Dynamic, Future, People, Vision, World

The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

300, Additional, Data, Organization, Overweight, Years

The future will be green, or not at all

Future, Green, Vision

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

Compared, Economy, Foundation, Grow, May, Support Systems

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

Fails, Future, Heart, Project, Spasm, Vision

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

Attractions, Fabric, Future, Ideas, Inequalities, Powerful

We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century.

2Nd, Creating, Systems, Thinking, War

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

Away, Crass, Materialism, Moving, Needs

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

Future, Indefinitely, Mean, Sustainable, Vision

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

Albeit, Depends, Lacerating, Minorities, Progress, Skins

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.

Earth Day, Green, Heart, Lying, Pressing, Truth

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?

Climate, Question, Running, Starts, World

"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

Bankers, Believe, Business, Mean, Regulation, Shortages

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

Climate, Economics, Environmental, Issue, Issues, Security

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