Growth Quote by Bad Religion

There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for…

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with…

— Radhanath Swami

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about…

— Evo Morales

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and…

— Gifford Pinchot

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts…

— Norbert Wiener

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has…

— Barry Commoner

The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only…

— Pope Francis

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world…

— Wangari Maathai

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless…

— Phil Harding

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

“the assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited our creative…

— Annie Leonard

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

— Michael Burry