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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

~David R. Brower

Topics: Allowing Consumption Convenience Energy Energy Consumption Every Exposing Generation Generations Hazard Lethal Luxury Major Minor Next Present Waste Worth Years

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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

~David R. Brower

Topics: About Consumption Continue Cool Electrical Energy Energy Consumption Generator Growth Know Our Pollution Present Rate Simply Streams Take Will Year

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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Actually Average Believe Consumption Cost Cutting Deal Drastically Energy Energy Consumption Fact Find Give Giving Great Great Deal Guy He In Fact Living May Our Raising Really Standard Street Understands Up While Will I Believe I Believe That

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Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Bottom Bottom Line Consumption Economy Effects Energy Hurt Industries Likely Line Money Most Packaging Polluting Positive Products Reducing Saving Saving Money Shifting Thus Undoubtedly Unnecessary Us Would

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I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

~David Suzuki

Topics: Cling Consumption Continue Country Current Demands Every Exponential Factor Feel Grow Humiliated Level Live Maintain More Must Notion Only Percent Why Year I Feel

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Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

~Dinesh Paliwal

Topics: Basis Constantly Consumption Control Environment Fed Feed Information Nor Organize Slow Technology Us Want Where Would You Your

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Act Consumption Deeply Endless Filled Influential May Meaningful Only Repetition Repressive Society Terror Writer

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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Consumption Enormous Increase Life My Life Poetry Readings Seen Virtually Were Young

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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

~Doug Larson

Topics: Being Computers Consumption Dog Eaten Functions Home Homework Including Many New Perform

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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Consumption Finite Growth Impossibility Infinite Material World

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