The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural… — Kenneth Goldsmith 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
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. — Jean-Baptiste Say 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
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better… — Jacob Rothschild Copy Share Image
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars,… — Andrea Jung 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
They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time,… — Arman Copy Share Image
Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants.… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what… — Warren Buffett 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