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“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”

“With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?”

“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”

Source: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the

“If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.”

Ifs Long Choices Deals Alive Waste Cooking Climate Climate Change Cooks Wasting Money

Author:George Soros

“Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.”

Produce Depends Conflict Waste Resources Misery Climate Climate Change Scales Ideology Governance Scarcity Large Scale Armed Conflict

Author:Steven Pinker

“Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.”

Running Earth Causes Economic Industry Waste Climate Climate Change Profit Treasure Exploits Economic Systems

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.”

Energy Environment Security Waste Crisis Impact Climate Climate Change Very Positive Positive Impact Energy Security

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.”

Form Energy Water Tree Produce Building Waste Climate Stores Release Solar Energy

Author:William McDonough