15 Quotes by Jonathon Porritt

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity.

The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that’s an additional one billion tonnes.

We’re never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be.

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.