Scott Pruitt Quotes

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Nobody yet knows how to improve working conditions and environmental quality without imposing heavy costs somewhere.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

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.

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.

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

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

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

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

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

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

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

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

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

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.

If there is a future, it will be Green.

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.

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

I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

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.