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

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Source : "Why do we play down the horror of climate change?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

Jonathon Porritt

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“Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.”
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
“We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.”
“We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing just as we need them in politics. We need that sense of adventure, of reaching wider, delving deeper, pushing further afield, whether that field be geographical, intellectual, political, personal, or all of these and more. Enough with decorousness. Let us risk preconceptions and treasured philosophies, bodies and souls. Let us be big and bawdy and full of courage. Let's go.”
“Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.”
“The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.”
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”

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