Consumption Quote by Louisa Thomsen Brits

“In paying attention to our wellbeing, we address the needs of our environment - the society that we live in and our planet. Sustainability…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends…

— Raj Patel

Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more…

— Tim DeChristopher

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and…

— Maurice Strong

“Consumption isn’t just about taking—it’s also about sharing, repurposing, and honoring the life cycle of the things we use.”

— Ken Breniman

“For all the environmental troubles single-use shopping bags cause, the much greater impacts are in what they contain. reducing the human footprint means addressing…

— Susan Freinkel

Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today…

— Stuart L. Hart

The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of…

— Winona LaDuke

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be…

— David W. Orr

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence,…

— Olivia Mellan

“we all need other people to meet our emotional needs for comfort and closeness. That’s what relationships are all about.”

— Lindsay C. Gibson

“He hurts you because he loves you inadequately. When he senses your emotional needs, he feels like a failure as a husband. Instead of…

— Steven Stosny