...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed
Interpretation
Sustainable development relies on core values like empathy and responsibility for building a better future.
This quote emphasizes the fundamental values necessary for sustainable development, arguing that principles like interdependence and intergenerational justice are crucial for fostering a better world. It suggests that without these values, any attempt to create a sustainable and equitable future will lack a solid foundation and ultimately be ineffective.
In practice
In a speech about climate change, one might quote this to emphasize the ethical responsibilities we have towards future generations.
The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today
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
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
As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.
The future will be green, or not at all
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.
What seest thou else_x000D_ _x000D_ In the dark backward and abysm of time?
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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