Unsustainable Economy Quotes

The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.

Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

By 1929, 5 percent of the population received one-third of the nation's income. The structural weaknesses of this economy plunged the nation into the Great Depression.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Low interest rates wipe out savers and devastate middle-class workers. The banksters have orchestrated this wealth transference of trillions, from the poor to the very wealthy. At the expense of everybody who isn't at the top.

We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.

Part time America won’t work.

Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

In Germany the intellectual proletariat is the real, fighting church of the fourth estate… civil servants, schoolmasters, perennial students of theology, starving academic instructors, literati, journalists, artists of all kinds ranging downwards from the traveling virtuosi to the itinerant comedians, organ-grinders and vaudeville singers… Germany produces more mental product than she can use or pay for.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not a goal that can be compromised. One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come.

The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.