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Jonathon Porritt

"Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no children. The lifetime CO2 emissions of a UK citizen amount to 750 tonnes (the equivalent - apparently - of 620 return flights between London and New York), so the extra 10 million by which our population will rise between now and 2074 will, over their lifetimes, emit around 7Â½ billion tonnes of CO2..."births averted" is probably the most single most substantial and cost-effective intervention that governments could be using"

-- Jonathon Porritt

#New York Quotes #Children Quotes #Government Quotes

“I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.”
“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”
“Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.”
“Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.”
“The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I wouldn't want to be so presumptuous as to suggest what my neighbors should or shouldn't do. Great insights might come out of drug dealing and prostitution. I'm not qualified to say. Not that I would promote those practices. I just respect the complexity of their cultural ecosystem and think it would be pretty lame, not to mention fruitless, to waltz in with some kind of reformative agenda.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there.”
“Kant does not think that the silly commandment "universalize your maxims" is the be-all and end-all of ethics or that it provides us with some sort of general decision procedure that is supposed to tell us what to do under all circumstances.”

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