The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us. — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide. — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar. — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“Consumption isn’t just about taking—it’s also about sharing, repurposing, and honoring the life cycle of the things we use.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand… — John S. Watson Copy Share Image
The fair (ph) transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I used to love eating canned fruit. Once I learned how to read a food label, I learned that canned fruit is… — Harley Pasternak Copy Share Image
New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry. — Brendan Brazier Copy Share Image
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak.… — Gunther Oettinger Copy Share Image
YouTube consumption is entirely based on good content. If you don't put out good content, people will not consume it. — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we… — J.P. Rangaswami Copy Share Image
If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the… — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption… — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I should come with a consumer warning, like the labels that say "Handle with care" or "May be hazardous to your health."… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image