Evo Morales Quotes

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

We need a greening of globalisation.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

Nothing is being done of any real significance. Our demand is the government must tell the truth about the crisis we're in. And that includes working with communities to build resilience... We want to go to net carbon zero emissions by 2015 and reduce our consumption levels.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable products and practices. It is also essential that governments commit to the future, creating fiscal and regulatory conditions for sustainable policies to thrive.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

Our goal is not just the survival of America. It is the survival of the whole planet.