Bankrupting Nature Quotes

“While growth may be unsustainable, de-growth is unstable.’ Today’s economic model cannot continue indefinitely. We live on a small planet. The population and the economy are growing, but the planet is not growing.”
― Anders Wijkman, Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

“In Jared Diamond’s book Collapse (2005) it was estimated that more than one billion people living in developed countries have on average a per capita resource usage 32 times larger than the 5.5 billion people who live in what we call developing countries.”
― Anders Wijkman, Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries