Rapid population growth and technological innovation…

A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive…

— Jonathon Porritt

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function,…

— David Suzuki

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

— Richard Bach

Give them instructions, they will still mess up. That's how they are created. A mess

— Suhyini

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only…

— Ted Yoho

“Are we headed toward the end of growth for technological or ecological reasons, or perhaps both at once? Before trying to answer this question,…

— Thomas Piketty

“Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new.”

— Anonymous

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.

— Sylvia Earle

“...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently…

— Rowan Jacobsen

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive…

— Brad Pitt

We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human…

— Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

— Lester R. Brown

It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching…

— Jamie Goode