A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to…

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and…

— Maurice Strong

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing…

— Maurice Strong

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of…

— Maurice Strong

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and…

— Peter Buffett

I think what's happened to America, in a cultural sense, is we stopped getting richer as a country in the early 1970s, but we…

— Porter Stansberry

We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding…

— James O'Dea

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need…

— Maurice Strong

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