Economics Quote by James Gustave Speth

“Ecology teaches us “that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone,” wrote Burke more than…

— Kenneth Burke

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create…

— Michael Pollan

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff…

— Annie Leonard

“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

“Look, just producing energy cleanly doesn’t clean up the environment. Energy is the fuel of consumption, and rampant consumption is what drives the train…

— Richard Phillips

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land…

— Ian Goldin

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen…

— Jose Mujica

“To maintain our own economy,we are disturbing the nature's economy”

— Siddharth Seksaria

“Economics is the tool we hide behind today in order to justify an abhorrent track record of abuses of human rights and degradation of…

— Steve Carlsson

“Part of the whole capitalist ethic is that the only thing that matters is how much money you make tomorrow: that's the crucial value…

— Noam Chomsky