Degradation Quote by Derrick Jensen

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.

— Peter Senge

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

— Peter Senge

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

— Kalle Lasn

“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it turns out,…

— Kate Raworth

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the…

— Aldous Huxley

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

— John Boyd Orr

The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce.…

— Richard Heinberg

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take…

— David Miliband

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

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors…

— Lucy Powell