Margaret Beckett Quotes

• One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

  Margaret Beckett

  Skills, Reason, Social Worker

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• Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

  Margaret Beckett

  Cities, Community, Environmental

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• We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

  Margaret Beckett

  Children, Impact, Worry

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• You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

  Margaret Beckett

  Opciones

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• It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

  Margaret Beckett

  Facts, Natural, Century

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• Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

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  Future, Vision, Way

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• Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can

  Margaret Beckett

  Future, Technology, Opportunity

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• My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

  Margaret Beckett

  Passion, Holiday, Media

  "Carry on caravanning" by Margaret Beckett, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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• The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Successful, Opportunity

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• Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

  Margaret Beckett

  Climate, Pace, Achieve

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• I don't join or leave things lightly.

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• Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

  Margaret Beckett

  Reality, Climate, Needs

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• En el Reino Unido, lo que hemos descubierto es que incluso las empresas que ya se enorgullecían de su gestión eficiente descubren que un examen minucioso de su gestión de los recursos, con la vista puesta en las mejores prácticas medioambientales y la sostenibilidad a largo plazo, produce una nueva eficiencia y un nuevo ahorro que realmente sorprende a los empleados de la empresa.

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Eye, Best Practices

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• Todo el mundo debe tener claro que seguir como hasta ahora no es una opción. La mayoría de nosotros vivimos en edificios construidos mucho antes de que naciéramos y nuestros sucesores tendrán que vivir con las consecuencias medioambientales de los edificios que construyamos hoy. Es vital que minimicemos los impactos perjudiciales para los que vengan detrás de nosotros.

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Impact, Long

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