We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great. – Vivienne Westwood
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadnt realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. – Vivienne Westwood
Its a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world. – Vivienne Westwood
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. – Vivienne Westwood
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change were used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that were moving closer and closer to that tipping point. – Al Gore