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

“Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.”

“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.”

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

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

“Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.”

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