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“We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment”

“If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries”

Ifs Country Use Causes Environment Materials Waste Majors Concerned Patterns Productions Available Substitutes Appetite Consumption Decrease Plausible Deterioration

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us”

“The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries put together. With only limited environmental space to accommodate the expected 9 billion human inhabitants of the world by 2050, such disparities in consumption are clearly not sustainable”

People World Humans Country Together Three Space Greater Environmental Riches Expected Billions Consumption Poorest Accommodate Disparity

Author:Tony Juniper

“Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to disaster”

Growth Environment Economic Capacity Population Disaster Locals Consumption Expansion Economic Growth

Author:Phil Harding

“And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.”

Men Ends Century Suicide Prepared Providence Consumption

Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.”

Greed Assumption Consumption

Author:Andy Stanley

“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.”

Art Mass Advertising Corporate Consumption Mass Consumption

Book:Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Source: Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

“We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.”

Thinking World Needs Mistake Quality Focus Materials Resources Boring Preserves Controlled Consumption Uniforms Expanding Quality Of Life Ecosystems Stagnant Fertility

Author:Donella Meadows

“I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.”

Humans Practice Amount Ocean Concerned Scales Destructive Fishing Consumption Modest Wildlife Large Scale

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.”

Mean Country Fighting Force Loss Clear Risk Increase Appreciation Consumption Efficiency Alcoholics Wartime Beverages

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?”

Kind Two Home Civilization Consumption Heathen

Book:King Leopold's Soliloquy

Source: King Leopold's Soliloquy

“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.”

Men Long Stills Earth Science Given Waste Forgotten Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption

Book:Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.”

“Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.”

Order Ability Investing Consumption

Author:Warren Buffett

“There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.”

Government Nations Half Millions Four Adults Concern Alcohol Factors Consumption Traffic Alcoholics

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?”

“...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.”

People Ifs Men Needs Ends Culture Poverty Break Becoming Drama Waste Computer Men And Women Tragedy Profit Thought Provoking Idols Consumption Norm

Author:Pope Francis

“The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away.”

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

“The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.”

Community Economy Contribution Abundance Isolation Consumption Scarcity Transactions

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.”

Ifs Growth Wonder Imagine Possession Imagine That Consumption

Author:John Lennon

“I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.”

Years Two Film Term Consumption Promoting

Author:James Spader

“It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.”

Method Plates Consumption

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.”

People Trying Light School Culture Building Involved Aim Green Educate Consumption Unnecessary Footprint Greening Unnecessary Things

Author:Walton Goggins

“Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.”

“What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed.”

Values Creation Expression Scene Essentials Mass Incredibles Critical Productivity Celebrate Rejects Consumption Aesthetics Value Systems

Author:Claire Vaye Watkins

“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.”

Painting Wine Aesthetic Consumption Vintage Tasting Admiring Espresso

Book:Espresso Coffee: The Science of Quality

Source: Espresso Coffee: The Science of Quality

“Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.”

World Matter Energy Equal Genocide Consumption Annuals Annihilation Energy Consumption

Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.”

Whole Body Age Earth Dark Cities Habit Clouds Breathe London Medical Range Thick Consumption Coal Lungs Mist Dark Ages

Author:John Evelyn

“In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars.”

Age Wealth Dark Numbers Car Disease Population Medical Fats Smoking Association Sugar Cigarette Consumption Dark Ages Affluent

Book:Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers

Source: Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers

“Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.”

Years Stills Growing Up Saws Growing Fine Consumption Survived Hairstyles Disposable

Author:Manuel Puig

“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”

America Artist Goal Lines Industry Mass Productions Consumption Assembly North America Assembly Line Standardization Mass Consumption

Author:Arthur Erickson

“The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.”

“California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.”

“Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.”

“Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.”

“A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.”

Ifs Thinking Moving Taxes Fairs Income Consumption Income Tax Sales Tax

Author:Ken Buck

“We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.”

Years Economy Consequence Consumption Severe Emissions

Author:Tony Blair

“The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.”

People Needs Should Consumption Austerity Petroleum

Author:Veerappa Moily

“If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection”

Ifs Needs Children Law Individual Social Responsibility Exercise Equal Resources Patterns Protection Denied Providing Compelling Consumption Deterioration Equal Protection

Author:John Holdren

“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.”

States United United States Economy Design Lows Campaigns Massive Stable Consumption

Author:John Holdren

“Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.”

“The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”

“Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”

World Should Helping Nations Natural Higher India China Oil Driving Developing Gas Consumption Curb Natural Gas China And India Oil Consumption

Author:Bobby Jindal

“If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.”

Ifs May Long Values Waiting Television Industry Long Time Fundamentals Entertainment Scales Consumption Another Day Entertainment Industry

Author:Michael Medved

“And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.”

Half Oil Vehicle Consumption Motor Motor Vehicles Oil Consumption

Author:Tim Holden

“Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.”

Taxes Income Consumption Income Tax

Author:Bill Gates

“Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.”

Facts Found Animal Levels Effects Thousand Normal Hundred Environmental Cancer Feds Chemicals Relevant Consumption Protein Labs Dairy Biochemistry

Author:T. Colin Campbell

“Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years”

Needs Years Next Five Ambition Five Years Quarters Consumption Nigeria Heirs

Author:Tony Elumelu

“I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.”

Speak Baby Fishes Eggs Vegan Solitary Consumption Steak My Baby Apricots

Author:Anthony Kiedis

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