Decline Quote by Satish Kumar

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

— Helen Clark

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a…

— George Monbiot

“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

Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much…

— John B. Cobb

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

— Albert Allen Bartlett

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

— Richard G. Wilkinson

“The economy is now consuming the planet’s available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the…

— James Gustave Speth

Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

— Frans van Houten

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

“Are we headed toward the end of growth for technological or ecological reasons, or perhaps both at once? Before trying to answer this question,…

— Thomas Piketty

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

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

— Paul Polman