Joan Robinson Quotes

Clear skies and clean air must become the new normal. We must re-design our cities, reclaiming the streets for cycling and walking, allowing people to walk along streets unpolluted by traffic.

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.

Every person that you can get on a public transportation vehicle is one less person polluting the air or taking up space on our highways.

The oil market is the biggest failure of the free market because it did not take into account the environmental damage.

Markets can do certain things, but markets cannot do other things

I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment.

The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike-sharing, and as we work toward creating a fitter city, the bike-share program encourages a more active and healthy lifestyle.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

We didn't build the modern country to be bike-friendly - our initial round of infrastructure was not designed to think about how to get around if you're not in a car. So we've got to be targeting resources, both nationally and locally, to how people are going to get around in the new world.

Clean air and clean ocean, you can't translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

I have a car, but I don't use it very much - only when I go for my shoots - so the carbon footprint is tiny.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

Improving our transportation infrastructure reduces car trips, helps us reach our carbon emission reduction goals, is healthier for our residents, and saves lives. Too often in the past we have been slow to make these common sense improvements to our streets.

Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.

It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.