Arise Quote by Donella Meadows

The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the…

— Stanislav Grof

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest,…

— Satish Kumar

I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response…

— Jonathan Franzen

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived…

— George Monbiot

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a…

— Martin Nowak

The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of…

— Winona LaDuke

My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused…

— Milton Friedman

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

— Bill Mollison

The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations…

— Charles Hugh Smith

The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.

— Marianne Williamson

“Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass. Because we…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

— E. F. Schumacher