Growth Quote by Paul Hawken

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

— David Korten

An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.

— John Bellamy Foster

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a…

— Vivienne Westwood

“Ecological degradation is not the same as resource scarcity.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

— Helen Clark

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless…

— Phil Harding

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

— Helene D. Gayle

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

— Carl Safina

Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our…

— Barry Commoner

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

— Satish Kumar