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“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”

Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

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Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.”

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Author:Rene Dubos

“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”

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Author:Leif Johansson

“To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century