Developing Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

“Most innovations arise more out of the desire to profit from waste or surplus products than the quest to meet human need.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the…

— Svante Arrhenius

“In our time, even the most seemingly transgressive visions of technology in everyday life invariably fall back to the familiar furniture of capital investment,…

— Adam Greenfield

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Technology has its own ethic of expediency and efficiency. What can be done efficiently must be done in the most efficient way—even if what…

— Thomas Merton

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

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

— Mason Cooley

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later,…

— Lewis Thomas

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as…

— Ramez Naam

We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new…

— Alex Steffen

We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean…

— Marianne Williamson