Better life Quote by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The world is fed by greed.

— Dick Gregory

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create…

— Michael Pollan

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

— Bill Bryson

Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for…

— Ban Ki-moon

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if…

— Kofi Annan

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

“When we over consume the Earth's resources, we create an economic imbalance in societies and in the world. Affluent people and affluent societies can…

— Arun Gandhi

A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive…

— Jonathon Porritt

For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change, growing scarcity…

— Ban Ki-moon

The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People…

— Donella Meadows

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

We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet.…

— Peter Diamandis