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Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. -- Kalle Lasn
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced. -- Andrew Carnegie
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. -- Winston Churchill
It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed. -- Michel de Montaigne
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. -- John Ruskin
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants. -- E. Stanley Jones
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough. -- Jim Wallis
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach. -- Charles Horton Cooley
When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today. -- Bill Gates
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times. -- Fulton J. Sheen
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue. -- Joe Bageant
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment... They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at home with nature and at peace with their lot. -- Hu Shih
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. -- Walter Weyl
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem. -- Sharon Gannon
The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment. -- Ludwig von Mises

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