A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed
Jonathon PorrittPeace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
Jonathon PorrittWe need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status
Jonathon PorrittThe future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.
Jonathon PorrittThe World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.
Jonathon Porritt