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.
Jonathon PorrittKeeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues
Jonathon PorrittClimate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics
Jonathon PorrittThe 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
Jonathon Porritt