Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

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

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

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

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

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

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

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

A singer must be able to sing any kind of song

But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy