A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the…

If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we…

— Alan Thein Durning

We believe it is essential to establish federal emission reduction targets that can vary by state or region with policy flexibility for states to…

— Charlie Baker

The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much…

— John Holdren

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.”

— Tim Jackson

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you…

— James Surowiecki

Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The…

— Willie Nelson

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.…

— Jenna Wortham

Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes…

— Michael Dean Crapo

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us…

— Richard J. Foster

The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that…

— Ted Leo

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of…

— David R. Brower

“Truth is commodity in political consumption.”

— Toba Beta

Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

— Michael Yates