A Quote by David Attenborough

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
British - Journalist
Born: May 8, 1926

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

David Attenborough

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.

George Monbiot

Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

Phil Harding

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

George Monbiot

What I've been thinking about recently is the idea of finite and fragility. Either we're acknowledging that our lives here are finite, this moment is finite, and that this whole world is fragile, or we're not, but it is really happening and that is really true.

Jonathan Tucker

We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

Jeremy Grantham

How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.

George W. Bush

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Garrett Hardin

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

Andrew Simms

The future is no longer indefinite. Time has become very finite to me and very precious.

Edward Bryant

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Ben Stein

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

Henry Ford

Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is the center of love, the force that makes our lives worthwhile. Globally, the heart is a symbol of a new organizing principle for how to live together on this finite jewel of a planet.

Anodea Judith

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

John Warren Kindt

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