Consumption Quotes

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We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies… — Kevin Rudd
The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand name coverage in the doughnut… — David J. C. MacKay
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it… — David R. Brower
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing… — David R. Brower
My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of… — Gunther Oettinger
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture… — Chuck Palahniuk
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in… — Gustave de Molinari
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama… — Jeffrey Sachs
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing -… — Maurice Strong
First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe… — Chris Huhne
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained — Albert Allen Bartlett
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a… — Pope Francis
Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve… — Paul Meyer
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet. — Fidel Castro
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral… — Pope Benedict XVI

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