The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom;… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon… — Craig Dilworth Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different.… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society… — Martin Nowak Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and… — Toby Robins Copy Share Image
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“When we are tired or preoccupied - what psychologists call 'resource-depleted' - we start to economise, to conserve those resources. Higher-order thinking… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“At a private lunch when I recently asked one of the world’s highest-ranking international diplomats what, among all the possible scenarios for… — Jørgen Randers Copy Share Image
