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#sustainability

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #sustainability




Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use.


Susan Freinkel


#sustainability #life

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.


Jeffrey D. Sachs


#humanity-and-society #life #sustainability #wealth #life

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.


Sigmar Gabriel


#construction #creates #economy #engineering #heavy

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?


Derrick Jensen


#ecology #economics #environment #sustainability #dreams

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.


George Washington Carver


#sustainability #work #food

Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sustainable world. They see it as a world to move toward not reluctantly, but joyfully, not with a sense of sacrifice, but a sense of adventure. A sustainable world could be very much better than the one we live in today.


Donella H. Meadows


#growth #sustainability #imagination

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.


Terence McKenna


#gun #sustainability #western-civilization #civilization

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.


Toshihiko Fukui


#banks #central #emphasized #experience #fairly

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


Paul Hawken


#defy #first #forces #least #natural

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.


Criss Jami


#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure






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