Consumption Quote by Ramez Naam

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a…

— Martin Nowak

Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A…

— Toby Robins

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

— Phil Harding

The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is…

— Phil Harding

Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that…

— James Cameron

“At a private lunch when I recently asked one of the world’s highest-ranking international diplomats what, among all the possible scenarios for Pakistan, was…

— Jørgen Randers

It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the…

— Phil Harding

If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we…

— Ray Anderson

“When we are tired or preoccupied - what psychologists call 'resource-depleted' - we start to economise, to conserve those resources. Higher-order thinking is more…

— Margaret Heffernan

“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing…

— Craig Dilworth

Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement…

— Ken Wilber