Billions Quote by Jose Mujica

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

— Fidel Castro

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

— Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

— Alain Ducasse

If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity…

— Duane Elgin

“The economy is now consuming the planet’s available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the…

— James Gustave Speth

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

— George Monbiot

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.

— Paul Craig Roberts

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

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods,"…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only…

— Pope Francis

This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort.…

— Eric Pianka