Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resourc….

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

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 b….

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 opportunit….

The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, soc….

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of no….

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

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

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

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairn….

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

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimi….

Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question….

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

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..

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