“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
“Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.” WorldRealityGrowthEconomicModernTaughtWorshipEconomicsUltimateSickContrastContinentsUnitsFiniteEconomic GrowthConsumingDisconnectedUnreality Author:Dervla Murphy
“A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.” WorldGrowthSupportEqualPopulationZeroFinitePopulation GrowthWorld PopulationHuman Population Book:Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle
“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.” ThinkingMenHumansSelfSpiritualGrowthNaturalConsciousnessDivineDevelopmentEternalOrdinaryUniversalInfiniteAimIgnorantIndianSignificanceProgressiveFiniteDivine NatureSignificance Of Life Author:Sri Aurobindo
“...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.” IfsMenEndsEnoughEarthLastsSocialGrowthGriefFairsRateChosenCheatingMassiveFiniteDisgraceProgressionSocial SystemsGeometric Author:Charlie Munger
“But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.” DoeWholeOpportunityGrowthNaturalEconomyCostFiniteMacroOpportunity Cost Author:Herman E. Daly