70 Quotes by Phil Harding

Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to disaster.

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it – a take on Eisenhower’s famous leadership statement.

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It’s all that you do with others and for others.

It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion.

Economic growth won’t feed a growing population living on this finite planet.

The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics.

Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face.