Breakfast of champions Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

— Ken Follett

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed…

— Chuka Umunna

Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

— Tim Ryan

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

— Alice Walker

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

— Wernher von Braun

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without…

— James Hutton

“A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In…

— John Sandford

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet…

— Gaylord Nelson

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

— Bill Gross

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

— Lionel Shriver

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's…

— Louis O. Kelso

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises,…

— Alex Steffen