"The throwaway economy that has been evolving over……" — Lester R. Brown
"The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history."
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24 Quotes by Lester R. Brown
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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe.…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort…
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and…
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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water…
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One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for…
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The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy…
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More Aberration Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
— Francis Bacon
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under…
— Ilka Chase
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
— Jeff Cooper
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Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection…
— Shadia Drury
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these…
— John Astin
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a…
— Michel Foucault
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
— Emile M. Cioran
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.…
— Bertrand Russell
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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
— Remy de Gourmont
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