Economic system Quote by Barry Commoner

“Over a large range of cases, environmental problems arise from our entirely reasonable habit of taking the benefits of our activities, while passing on…

— Roger Scruton

If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we…

— Ray Anderson

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself…

— John Holdren

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

— Phil Harding

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff…

— Annie Leonard

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted…

— Vivienne Westwood

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something…

— Roger Scruton

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

— Bono

A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method…

— Jacque Fresco

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

— Steven F. Hayward

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

— Satish Kumar

Addressing the climate and biodiversity crises requires us to radically change our economic models, moving away from economic growth as the over-riding measure of…

— Caroline Lucas