Becoming Quote by Paul Hawken

The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more…

— Arvind Gupta

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is…

— Anonymous

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment…

— Stephen Hawking

It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or…

— Tom Peters

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

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

— Andrew Lansley

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend…

— Paul Hawken

It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is…

— M. King Hubbert

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

— Peter Drucker

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on…

— Klaus Topfer

I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.

— Lisa Murkowski

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

— Lamar S. Smith