"...so mankind is now trapped by the failure……" — Russell Kirk

More Depletion Quotes

This quote is filed under Depletion Quotes, one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or… — E. O. Wilson
• Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable… — Martin Nowak
• We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons… — Jimmy Carter
• Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future… — Deepak Chopra
• Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does… — Phil Harding
• It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse… — Phil Harding
• Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water… — Lester R. Brown
• Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate… — Toby Robins
• It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution,… — Carl Sagan
• Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient… — Aaron T. Beck
• Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within… — Richard Heinberg
• Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. — Mark Lynas

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