Depletion Quotes
34 quotes by 30 authors
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.…
— E. O. Wilson
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Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole…
— Martin Nowak
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We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used,…
— Jimmy Carter
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Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed…
— Deepak Chopra
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Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it
— Phil Harding
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It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context…
— Phil Harding
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a…
— Lester R. Brown
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Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company…
— Toby Robins
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It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid…
— Carl Sagan
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Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during…
— Aaron T. Beck
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Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not…
— Richard Heinberg
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Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
— Mark Lynas
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Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in…
— Ken Wilber
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
— Albert J. Nock
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Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy
— Deepak Chopra
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At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources…
— Daniel Suarez
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You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it…
— Billy Graham
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The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely…
— Phil Harding
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Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build…
— Andrew Simms
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...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.
— Russell Kirk
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