Resource Scarcity Quotes

#1. We therefore have a good chance of overcoming the problem of resource scarcity. The real nemesis of the modern economy is ecological collapse. Both scientific progress and economic growth take place within a brittle biosphere, and as they gather steam, so the shock waves destabilise the ecology. In

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

Ed Miliband

#3. Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Steven Pinker

#4. I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

Hanley Ramirez

#5. When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.

Tom Rath

#6. Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Gertrude Stein

#7. Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

Steven Solomon

#8. As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

Richard Gere

#9. You can know only what you have thought about.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Joseph Silk

#11. Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. I'm all over the place.

Meryl Streep

#13. It's said that only gypsies have the true gift of looking at a person and seeing their future, so I was happy as a red hen when she said a man named Doyle would be loving me for the whole of my life and then some.

Bette Lee Crosby

#14. The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Thomas Love Peacock

#15. No Eden valid without serpent.

Wallace Stegner