Alain Ducasse Quotes

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

We face a simple choice. Either we go back to the days when everything was disposable and landfill dumps consumed our countryside at an increasing pace, or we recognise that we have limited resources and need to use them wisely and sustainably.

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

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

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

We've got to take care of the resources we have on this planet, because there's no resupply possible.

Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

How much longer, for instance, can we continue to crowd more and more people into this world? …. How long can we permit the uncontrolled use of the earth's resources when there is no possibility of replacing them? Indeed, how long will it be before we have completely used up everything our lives depend on? These issues are the politics of the future. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have begun to spell out in substantive fashion the means by which we can control population growth, environmental problems, and the conservation of our natural resources.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.