Areas Quote by Murray Rothbard

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

— Garrett Hardin

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

— Barbara Castle

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

— Garrett Hardin

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we…

— Alex Steffen

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that…

— Evo Morales

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

— Li Keqiang

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be…

— Walter Lippmann

When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for…

— Wangari Maathai

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide…

— Pope Francis

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being…

— James Russell Lowell

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

— Johan Rockstrom