Graciela Chichilnisky Quotes

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

It needs to be understood that global warming countermeasures could transform the economy and foster growth, not hinder it.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

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.

Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

You can listen to them [environmental protesters] but don’t stop your project—don’t stop your thinking.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.