Quotes About Resources

The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it.

Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.

is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?

the most important step we can take toward Mars is to make significant progress on Earth. Even modest improvements in the social, economic, and political problems that our global civilization now faces could release enormous resources, both material and human, for other goals.

Exponential increases in population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized. While some industrial nations have approached zero population growth, this is not the case for the world as a whole.

from nature what they needed to improve their lives without regard for how it might damage nature herself

to realize it leads directly to extinction. Sooner or later nature will have no more to give them.

apenas o capitalismo é capaz de desenvolver as forças produtivas até o ponto em que, sob uma administração política diferente, o excedente por elas gerado possa ser usado para prover o bastante para todos. Para ter o socialismo, primeiro é preciso ter capitalismo...

Não que a construção do socialismo não possa começar em situações de privação, mas, sem recursos materiais, a tendência será a de que ele seja deturpado e vire a caricatura monstruosa de socialismo conhecida como stalinismo

Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety—lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched to rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.

We have to create images that remain in people's memory because a film is judged by what they have already seen. You are trying to create an image that is unique and you have to employ all the resources available to you.

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.

I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

It's important for women to have each other's backs. I'd like my label to give women the resources they need to flourish.

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.

GDP is a function of capital, labour and how productively you use both.

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.

It is sad when people only use their connections & resources for themselves. How very self-centered. Use your platform to help others.