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Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful. -- Paul Krugman
Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up. -- Donella Meadows
Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. -- Bill Gates
Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? -- Ken MacLeod
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable. -- Mo Ibrahim
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future. -- Ian Somerhalder
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. -- Arsene Wenger
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable. -- Simon Mainwaring
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. -- Dan Lipinski
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic. -- Arundhati Roy
Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us. -- Martin Rees
The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself. -- Henry Paulson
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. -- Charles Krauthammer
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits. -- Maurice Strong
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for. -- Eskinder Nega
Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway. -- Maurice Strong
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? -- David Suzuki
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity. -- Pete Hegseth
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform. -- Glenn Hubbard
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. -- Nick Clegg
Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives? -- Jim Cooper
The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously unsustainable in almost every way, and nothing we know of will likely stop their decline, much less fix them easily. -- Alex Steffen
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages. -- Niall Ferguson
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. -- William J. Clinton
As Congress debates overhauling the nation's health care system, it should not authorize a reform plan that would further our financial woes. We must avoid creating an unsustainable government program. There is no question that reform is needed, but health care can be made more affordable without massive and expensive new bureaucracies. -- Erik Paulsen
The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will there be a desperate attempt to sustain the unsustainable by authoritarian measures? Will the institutions of order and justice fail in the process? -- James Howard Kunstler
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The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. -- Bruce Sterling
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. -- Peter Thiel
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical -- Amartya Sen
If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them. -- Lewis Gordon
Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out. -- Garth Greenwell
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable -- Thabo Mbeki
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world. -- John Robbins
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern. -- Alan Greenspan
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. -- William J. Clinton
Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before. -- Simon Sinek
Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for. -- Barton Seaver
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable. -- James P. Hoffa
The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us. -- Hillary Clinton
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! -- Malcolm Turnbull
President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it. -- David Limbaugh
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable -- Jeremy Irons
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable. -- Don Tapscott
Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think. -- Peter R. Orszag
Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do. -- Barack Obama
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives -- Margaret Beckett
The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course. -- Klaus Topfer
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income. -- Edmund Phelps
To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals. -- Ben Bernanke
I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable. -- Steve Daines
The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples. -- Alan Hirsch
The key to successful change is sensitivity towards that which is indigenous and, in the long run, diversity will always be more resilient than monoculture despite the current unsustainable trends in the opposite direction. -- Jonathan Watts
Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable. -- Tony Blair
I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest. -- Katie Cleary
Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell no. -- Charles Krauthammer
The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole. -- Mark Steyn

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