Balance Quote by James Madison

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the…

— Sharon Gannon

There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away…

— Benjamin Creme

We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health…

— Wendell Berry

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing,…

— Paul Hawken

We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.

— Raheem Devaughn

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of…

— Thomas Malthus

Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will…

— Richard J. Foster

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

— John Warren Kindt

“21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food…

— Earle Gray

“The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and…

— Carolyn Baker

“People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given…

— Stuart Chase