We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.
society sustainability
We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.
technology earth sustainability
Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever.. It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is already well along.. The real thrill will be in learning in detail what is out there.. It is an especially dangerous delusion if we see emigration into space as a solution to be taken when we have used up this planet.. Earth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings..
technology emigration robots sustainability space-exploration
We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.
life wealth fairness humanity-and-society sustainability
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.
capitalism sustainability animal-rights ecology vegan vegetarian animal-cruelty
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
earth sustainability gun western-civilization
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.
environment sustainability green
If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order?We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails.
environment consumerism sustainability
You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
environment conservation sustainability
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.
sustainability ecology preservation 21st-century
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