Patrick Dixon Quotes

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

If there is a future, it will be Green.

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

I'm a recycling obsessive.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

The future will either be green or not at all.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

We will preserve the environment.

Protecting our environment and natural resources is necessary for both our planet and our economy.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

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.

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

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.