Best growth & consumption Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.”

World Years Heart Growth Millions Issues Periods Demand China Oil Around The World Developing Gas Consumption Crude Barrels Crude Oil Oil Consumption

Author:John S. Watson

“We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”

Knows World Growth History Know How Connections Materialism Manipulation Sane Consumption Consumerism Manipulate

Book:Sane Society Ils 252

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.”

“Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.”

People Ifs Has Beens Book Growth Hours Cutting Tvs Increase Mediums Magazines Expecting Consumption

Author:Ted Nelson

“What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.”

Care Growth Nature Responsibility Ignorance Eras Fallen Materialism Providing Consumption

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.”

Problem Growth Consumption Symptoms Obesity

Author:Emily Levine

“We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.”

Earth Growth Goes On Excess Cents Consumption

Author:Michael Meacher

“The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.”

Growth Economy Century Arise Consumption 21st Century Constraints Ecological

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.”

Needs Humans Growth Limits Capitalism Resources Transformation Consumption Unstoppable

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.”

Way Children Growth Standards Our Children Consumption Standards Of Living

Author:Joseph J. Romm

“Therefore, this is a question of whether we, humans, can change our culture and begin to truly care for all Creation, nurture all Life and thereby avert our own extinction. As such, this is a deeply spiritual issue and we can begin to act today, regardless of age. But the good news is that this is not a question of whether we will change our culture, but a question of when.”

Humans Care Age Today Spiritual Culture Growth Issues Creation News Consumption Nurture Good News Extinction Avert

Author:Shailesh Rao

“Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.”

People Ifs Thinking Film Growth Media Mass Awakening Journalist Awake Collectives Makers Consumption Catastrophe Mass Media

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.”

Ifs Seems Earth Growth Economy Clear Patterns Speed Consumption Global Economy Collision

Book:The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

Source: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

“We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.”

Has Beens Growth Water Natural Rich Land Flow Rivers Fishes Forests Consumption Get Rich Hydrocarbons

Book:Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions

Source: Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions

“The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.”

Thinking May Long Understanding Growth Acting Periods Helpful Consumption Long Periods Of Time

Book:The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

“At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.”

Ifs Knows Littles Whole Helping Use Growth Know How Doubt Mankind Danger Produce Mortals Consumption Technological

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?”

Mean Stuff Growth Wonder Morning Get Up Bother Consumption

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!”

Ifs Thinking Way Hard Growth Trouble Environmental Best Way Consumers Joyful Consumption Volume Our Environment Subversive All The Best Joyful Life

Author:Bill McKibben

“No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.”

Growth Natural Support Civilization Destruction Consumption Survived Ongoing Support Systems

Author:Lester R. Brown

“Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.”

“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.”

“The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.”

Way Has Beens Today Earth Growth Forget Situation Worry Anxiety Productions Consumption

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place”

Firsts Energy Growth Technology Taken Revolution Lows Rate China Oil Developing Usa Gas Consumption New Technology Oil Price Energy Consumption

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...”

Growth Economic Myth Consumption Economic Growth

Author:Tim Jackson

“The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.”

Source: Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.”

“For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.”

Ends Growth Pleasure Materials Prosperity The End Of The Day Consumption

Author:Tim Jackson

“Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.”

Men Beautiful Growth Consumption Small Is Beautiful

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.”

People Soul Home Growth Levels Kitchen Materialism Splits Consumption Commodity Equipment Automobile

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.”

People Opportunity Strong Growth Class Millions Economy Middle Population Driving Middle Class Compelling Consumption Asia Emerging Resilient Robust Starbucks Southeast Asia

Author:Howard Schultz

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