Overconsumption Quotes

As a community we have been living beyond our means…. We have been living at a rate which is simply not justified by the amounts of goods and services we are producing.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

From abundance springs satiety.

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

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

I feel like a caffeine addict.

I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

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.

Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

It pains to see that some investors are importing raw commodities, although just on their door steps, similar produces are left to decay.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

Economic gross is making us fat.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.