Ginny Brown-Waite Quotes

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and that's really the hardest part.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.

Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.

There can be no debate that we possess a collective moral responsibility to leave a better world for our children rather than a devastated planet stripped of its resources.

There are a lot of people who want to leave their children with a world that is in better shape.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?'

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.