"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite……" — E F Schumacher
"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility."
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71 Quotes by E F Schumacher
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up…
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not…
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We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls…
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest…
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on…
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to…
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem…
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge…
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Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat…
— Neal Barnard
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
— Gary Bauer
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire…
— Joseph Beuys
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption…
— David R. Brower
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Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking.…
— Jerry Brown
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
— Jimmy Carter
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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political…
— Noam Chomsky
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
— Noam Chomsky
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities…
— Sherwood Boehlert
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the…
— Doug Larson
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