“Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.” ThinkingGrowthEconomicPlanetsResourcesEconomicsInfiniteMadEnvironmentalEconomistFiniteMadmenEnvironmentalist Author:David Attenborough
“In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.” PeopleWorldPlanetsMoralityEthicsEconomicsClimateProfitConsistently Author:Naomi Klein
“If you don't donate to Obama and you're a major corporation like Big Oil, then they're gonna blame you for climate change, destroying the planet and they're gonna get everybody turned against you and hating your guts and so forth, and that's how they operate. That's not how Trump operates. That's not how Mike Pence operates. They understand the simple mathematics of economics.” IfsBigsHateSimplePlanetsTrumpMajorsEconomicsMathematicsBlameClimateClimate ChangeOilCorporationsGutsDestroyingHate YouMikeDonateBig Oil Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.” NeedsEnoughWealthPovertyPowerEconomyPlanetsEconomicsManagementGreedSimplicityHungerGlobal EconomyEnding PovertyWorld HungerWorld EconomyWorld PovertyEnding HungerHunger And PovertyHunger PovertyGlobal PovertyEconomic EqualityHunger Awareness Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.” LifeLongBusinessPlanetsEconomicsUltimateAccountantsHaulLong HaulBookkeepers Author:Stewart Udall
“We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.” RealEarthBusinessEconomyPlanetsEconomicsManagementPrintCheaperBail Author:Paul Hawken
“Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources” HumansHandsSocialNaturalBusinessResponsibilityRightsEconomicPlanetsReturnResourcesEconomicsManagementEnvironmentalFinancialHuman RightsPreservationSocial ResponsibilityHand In HandNatural ResourcesDynamism Author:David Miliband
“Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality” IfsIdeasFactsRealityWould BeGrowthBusinessEconomicPlanetsTheoryFineEconomicsInfiniteManagementFiniteEconomic GrowthInconvenientEconomic TheoryDandy Author:George Monbiot
“Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.” WorldLifeNeedsCountryStatesAmericaHumanityLostEnemyPlanetsHugeWeaponsMassEconomicsDestructionPoliceThreatUsaArroganceWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionMenacePolice StateHubrisStalinismAnti-americanAmerican Empire Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species” IfsWorldRealActionEarthIndividualNaturalAbilityResponsibilityVisionGenerationsPlanetsDependsHealthyFutureOffersLuckyEconomicsLifetimeSpeciesOur SocietyFuture GenerationNatural WorldSustainable DevelopmentSpectaclesReal Success Author:David Attenborough
“We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped.” IfsYearsEarthPastNaturalEconomyRichClearCuttingPlanetsOceanEconomicsRiversInfiniteSellsOilIncomeForestsPossessedExtinctionOur PlanetOver The Past Author:Kalle Lasn
“Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingYearsMeanSaidCountryEnergyNationsWaterNaturalPathEnvironmentEconomicPlanetsHugeDevelopmentResourcesYears AgoEconomicsIndiaChinaThirtyDamageGiving BackConsumingThirty YearsNatural ResourcesMean PeopleEconomic DevelopmentIrreversibleChina And IndiaDeveloped Nations Author:David Miliband
“The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.” WayGovernmentTroubleSacrificePlanetsWindEconomicsBritainInsultAestheticsCountrysideThesisCoastalSave The Planet Author:Simon Jenkins