Advantage Quote by Lester Thurow

The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply of certain…

— Pope Benedict XVI

More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to…

— Ian Somerhalder

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

— Milton Friedman

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all…

— Margaret Beckett

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement…

— Paul Hawken

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

— William Weld

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become…

— Julian Simon

“One way of minimizing costs is to figure out how to manufacture a product with the least possible resources. In the telecommunications industry, for…

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more…

— Herman E. Daly

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by…

— Joseph J. Romm

If we don't concentrate on resurrecting science, we're not going to be able to compete in a global economy.

— Alice Roberts