Top 4 Ecological Crisis Quotes

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Lunch Break, Economics, Ecological Crisis

1973 Lecture. The phrase is thought to have been coined anonymously, perhaps referring to the 19c US tradition of supplying food in bars to patrons buying drinks.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

Technology, Ecological Crisis, Crisis

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

Vandana Shiva

Abuse, Earth, Ecological Crisis

Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.

Charles Eisenstein

Earth, Financial, Ecological Crisis

Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.127, North Atlantic Books