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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-bal

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. – E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973

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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. – Henry David Thoreau

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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. – Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics, 1977

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In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. – Richard Wilkinson

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Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. – John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

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