Argument Quote by Raj Patel

There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To…

— Wendell Berry

When the economic pie grows larger, it's always possible for everyone to have a larger slice than before. So it's really in all of…

— Robert H. Frank

The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't…

— Joe Bageant

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

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something…

— Roger Scruton

I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of…

— Henry Rollins

On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world…

— Ramez Naam

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly…

— Thomas Frank

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at…

— Dan Barber

... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so…

— John B. Cobb

Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

— Joe Lonsdale