Explore Quotes by Jonathon Porritt

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

The 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.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.