We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).