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Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two…

— Stuart L. Hart

The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.

— Christopher Martenson

“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

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by…

— Joseph J. Romm

You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In…

— James Cameron

Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I…

— Frances Beinecke

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or…

— Paul Polman

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

— Hiroyuki Watanabe

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

“Are we headed toward the end of growth for technological or ecological reasons, or perhaps both at once? Before trying to answer this question,…

— Thomas Piketty

...we have got to deal with increased demand for energy, increased demand for food, increased demand for water, and we've got to do that…

— John Beddington

“The rich and powerful are going to survive longer, but the effects are very real―and they're getting worse very quickly as more and more…

— Noam Chomsky