Abundance Quote by Arthur Eddington

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if…

— Kofi Annan

“On Earth one of the things that a large proportion of the locals is most proud of is this wonderful economic system which, with…

— Iain M. Banks

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without…

— John le Carre

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through…

— Tony Blair

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to…

— Richard Dawkins

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

— Thomas Malthus

We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect…

— Jimmy Carter

“The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some…

— Anonymous

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include…

— George Will

“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb