”We can’t frack our way back to economic prosperity; nor can we unplug a coal plant, plug in a solar panel, and go on expanding population and consumption.”
– Richard Heinberg
”The free-market fundamentalists will tell you that more growth, more stuff and 9 billion people going shopping is the best we can do. They’re wrong. We can be more. We can be much more.”
– Paul Gilding
author: The Great Disruption
”We can’t frack our way back to economic prosperity; nor can we unplug a coal plant, plug in a solar panel, and go on expanding population and consumption.”
– Richard Heinberg
”Because of this civilization’s obsession with growth, its demise is 100 percent predictable. We simply cannot go on living this way.”
– Adam Sacks
”We’re going to need some kind of radical break with our past behavior if we’re to engineer a viable future.”
– Mark Buchanan
Bloomberg columnist
”Population is the multiplier of everything we do wrong.”
– Dr. Martha M. Campbell
”We created a way of raising standards of living that we can’t possibly pass on to our children.”
– Joe Romm
physicist
”As I see it, humanity needs to reduce its impact on the Earth urgently and there are three ways to achieve this: we can stop consuming so many resources, we can change our technology and we can reduce the growth of our population.”
– Sir David Attenborough
”We’ve globalized an utterly untenable economic model of hyperconsumerism. It’s now successfully spreading across the world, and it’s killing us.”
– Naomi Klein
”In today’s full world, resources are not only scarce but have become the limiting factor”
– Herman Daly
former World Bank senior economist
”This is not about whales anymore. It’s about us.”
– Thomas Friedman
”In the short term, we must realize that we have better ways to create jobs and build the economy than holding an everything must go sale on our precious resources.”
– Dr. David Suzuki
”At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.”
– Paul Hawken
”I have – over the last five years – quite rapidly become a Malthusian. I have been won over by the data, and I have been won over by the logic of the math.”
– Jeremy Grantham
investment strategist
”Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
– Edward Abbey
”Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
– E.F. Schumacher
author: Small is Beautiful
”A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.”
– Paul Samuelson
economist
”There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.”
– Mahatma Ghandhi
”I have – over the last five years – quite rapidly become a Malthusian. I have been won over by the data, and I have been won over by the logic of the math.”
– Jeremy Grantham
investment strategist
”Long-term sustainability requires a materially smaller economy (the pie) shared more equitably (not equally) by a smaller population.”
– William Rees
Co-originator of Ecological Footprint Analysis
”Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
– Kenneth Boulding
economist
”If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by people with the old vision but new programs.”
– Daniel Quinn
author: Ishmael and The Story of B
”We can share the earth and take care of it together, rather than trying to possess it, destroying the beauty of life in the process.”
– Dalai Lama
”We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it.”
– Paul Hawken
”Continual increases in population and consumption cannot continue forever on a finite planet.”
– Richard Heinberg
”The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.”
– Richard Branson
”If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by people with the old vision but new programs.”
– Daniel Quinn
author: Ishmael and The Story of B
”Our economic activity is at war with the planet.”
– Naomi Klein
”There will inevitably come a time that the society drastically needs to change the way it interacts with the environment, or it will lose its coherence.”
– Sander van der Leeuw
”The inescapable failure of a society built upon growth and its destruction of the Earth’s living systems are the overwhelming facts of our existence.”
– George Monbiot
Guardian columnist
”Our economic activity is at war with the planet.”
– Naomi Klein
”Who’s gonna stand up and save the Earth? Who’s gonna say that she’s had enough?”
– Neil Young
”You don’t have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”
– Paul Ehrlich
author: The Population Bomb
”Continual increases in population and consumption cannot continue forever on a finite planet.”
– Richard Heinberg
”You don’t have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”
– Paul Ehrlich
author: The Population Bomb
”A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.”
– Paul Samuelson
economist
”On the one hand, it’s politically impossible to stop growth. On the other hand, it’s biophysically impossible to continue it ad infinitum. So, which impossibility is fundamentally impossible?”
– Herman Daly
former World Bank senior economist

EDC Job Application and Slogan

Written by jay.ferguson on February 15, 2007. Posted in Blog

October 26, 2003

Rocky Scott

President

Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corporation

Dear Mr. Scott,

I read recently that the Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corporation is looking for a new chief recruiting officer. Look no more! I’m your man. I’m excited about the potential growth of this vibrant town. I know how to lure more businesses (and people wanting to work for them) to Colorado Springs, ensuring a steady flow of work for homebuilders, sod farmers and

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