Jesse Parent [INFLUENCE] • Posts Tagged ‘quotes’

Sustainable development is not a pipe dream. It is the destination the world’s accumulated knowledge points us towards, the fair future that will enable us to live with security, peace and opportunities for all. To get there we must transform the ways we manage, share and interact with the environment, and acknowledge that humanity is part of nature not apart from it.

- Camilla Toulmin, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development

The Asahi Glass Foundation | “The Blue Planet Prize laureates jointly presented a paper titled “Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act” at the 12^th UNEP Governing Council meeting in the year 2012 when the Prize celebrates its twentieth anniversary.”

(Source: af-info.or.jp)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

- Albert Einstein

[This great quote arose from my memory; it’s been so applicable to many of my deliberations as of late]

STEALING FROM THE FUTURE

It’s a very key point that nine professional bodies of engineering in 2011 issued a declaration which said we have every technology we need to fully decarbonise the global economy by 2050. The main one that didn’t sign was the U.S. body. This is a matter of intention. It is a moral issue of the first order. We are the ancestors of those who come after us. The previous generation of adults didn’t know what they we’re doing, but we do. And if we know what we’re doing and we deliberately steal from the future just to feed artificial desires in the fleeing present, then that’s completely unforgivable. Isn’t it?

Global Warming: The Un-tellable Story, By Rebecca Novick

… I basically think about this quote almost every day of my life. If I’m alive for several more decades, I wonder what people are going to ask of me about this time that I grew up in?

I also found this fun to think about:

We have to get back to the Holocene. If we don’t, what we are risking is an entirely different planet. It’s a bit like all those science fiction fantasies of visiting other planets that humans have been having for the past century or so. We can go to another planet all right, but it’s going to be this planet. We fantasize about going to another planet than this, but we are actually creating a different planet out of this.