It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of…

The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is…

— Phil Harding

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

— Fred Thompson

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

— Phil Harding

“I love them with fierce intensity and yet I operate out of depletion, which prevents me from being able to appreciate them in the…

— Alexandra Kuykendall

“They will also tell you how far along we are along the depletion curve; the optimists among them will even claim that there is…

— Dmitry Orlov

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the…

— Richard Lamm

The U.S. has subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.

— Donald Trump

The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife is depleted,…

— George Monbiot

“if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge…

— Daniel Kahneman

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

— Russell Kirk

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

— Stephen King

“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing…

— Craig Dilworth

Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement…

— Ken Wilber

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan