Consumption Quote by Wendell Berry

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

— E. F. Schumacher

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

— E. F. Schumacher

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

…the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is…

— Patricio Aylwin

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but…

— Joe Klein

“The only way to sustain this world economy is by changing its definition.”

— Toba Beta

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

— Noam Chomsky

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of…

— Woodrow Wilson

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand…

— Arancha Gonzalez

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible…

— Walter Wriston

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

— Maude Barlow