phil harding MBE

Environmental sustainability
& Green Belt advocate,
photographer & writer
(voluntary, not-for-profit)

Quotes Corner

"Quotes Corner" provides many different perspectives to inspire or help you reflect upon with hundreds of quotes & quotations to choose from. What they say about Quotes Corner: "some of the most inspiring quotes... excellent source of quotes... such a great place to be..."

Click on each image (or link below):-

• Sustainable development, climate change, population & sustainability in general - definitions, comments, reasoning, etc

• Nature and the natural environment - our survival and quality of life depends on a healthy natural environment

• Sustainable business, management & economics - essential good business sense for the modern world

• People matter too - more than anything else

• Wisdom & wit - thought-provoking quotes

 
        (photography link)
 

 
Coopersale Vicarage
Click on the Coopersale Vicarage image for photographs of the vicarage in the 1970s etc. and for tributes to Rolf & Elizabeth Harding.
 

 
'Escaping the Holocaust'
Click on the train or link here for:
'Escaping the Holocaust'
- the account of Rolf Harding's early life & escape from the holocaust.
 

If we are to change to a low carbon, low resource use, low waste economy, we have to take people with us at all levels of society. We can't tell people how to live their lives; that doesn't work and builds resentment and opposition.
 
The non-violent approach of the Extinction Rebellion campaign has its attractions and could achieve this change if handled well...
 
Extinction Rebellion is an international apolitical movement which intends to utilise non-violent resistance to avert climate breakdown, halt biodiversity loss, and minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.
 
Extinction Rebellion has 3 demands in the UK:-
 
1. TELL THE TRUTH - Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate emergency and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgemncy for change.
 
2. ACT NOW - Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.
 
3. BEYOND POLITICS - Government must create and be led by a Citizens' Assembly on climate and ecological justice.
 
When carrying out Extinction Rebellion protests and demonstations etc., the organisation expects its members to follow the following set of priciples:-
 
  1. We show respect to everyone - to each other, the general public and to the government and police.
  2. We engage in no violence, physical or verbal and carry no weapons.
  3. We wear no masks - we hold ourselves accountable for our actions.
  4. We bring no alcohol or illegal drugs.
  5. We take responsibility for ourselves, we are all crew.
 
Link: https://rebellion.earth
 

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