Cents Quote by Michael Meacher

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

— Richard J. Foster

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

— George Monbiot

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

— Jacque Fresco

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

— Satish Kumar

Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will…

— Richard J. Foster

We are on a crazy strategy with our central bank. It's good to have alternative ecosystems. It's not that the dollar will go away,…

— Patrick M. Byrne

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

— Hilary Benn

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

Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use…

— Jimmy Carter

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

— Chris Van Hollen

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming…

— David Korten

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

— George Perkins Marsh