15 Quotes by Jonathon Porritt

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics.

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind’s most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

The future will be green, or not at all.

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment – if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are.

It’s not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises.

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn’t, we can’t.

Humankind’s greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status.