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“Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.”

Humans Mean Use Common Economy Share Economic Waste Resources Responsible Definitions Consumers Damage Appropriate Goods Lions Consumerism Economist Dictionary Overconsumption Oxford

Author:Alan Thein Durning

“Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.”

People Two Common Numbers Economic Waste Regard Advertising Conception Expenditures

Author:Daniel Starch

“In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.”

States Turns Economic Healthy Waste Destruction Misery Socialism Ruins Countryside Flourishing Sinister Bolshevism

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Whole Lasts Order Three Social Work Economic Century Waste Economics Productions Envy Confusion Consumption Cages Trash Avarice Squirrels Social Systems

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.”

“We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.”

Knows Winning Sides Loses Economic Modern Waste Gains Destruction Scales Warfare Win Or Lose Modern Warfare

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.”

People Ifs Kind Doe Force Economic Industry Waste Management University Elsewhere Layers Domination Administrative

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.”

“The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.”

Giving Humans Can Do Plans Economic Human Nature Civilization Waste Vices Envy Outcomes Satisfying Yearning Offspring Covetousness

Author:William Graham Sumner

“Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.”

“When the economic pie grows larger, it's always possible for everyone to have a larger slice than before. So it's really in all of our interest to make the economic pie larger by eliminating waste whenever and wherever possible.”

Grows Interest Economic Waste Pie Eliminating

Author:Robert H. Frank

“I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.”

Thinking Should Country Faces Behinds Economic Waste Logic Toxic Load Lowest Impeccable Between You And Me Toxic Waste

Author:Lawrence Summers

“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

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”

Government Effort Liberty Economic Amount Waste Economics Libertarian Planning Enormous Delusion Libertarianism Sloth Government Spending Inefficiency Government Waste

Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat”

Facts Growth Nature Natural Environment Economic Waste Decline Economic Growth Natural Environment Habitat Natural Habitats

Author:Satish Kumar

“Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way of making _less_ effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.”

Source: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life

“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.”

Self Form Community Economic Waste Regard Instinct Western Motive Exception Civilized Strongest Preservation Persistent Self Preservation Propensity Emulation

Author:Thorstein Veblen