Aspirations Quote by Paul Hawken

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener…

— Van Jones

Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private…

— Jim Stanford

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away…

— Alan Thein Durning

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create…

— Anonymous

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods,"…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

— Noam Chomsky

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of…

— B. F. Skinner

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far…

— Adam Smith

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far…

— Adam Smith

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

— Peter Schiff

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

— Cornel West

We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon,…

— Michael Pollan