"We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on."

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Source : "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

Michael Meacher

#Growth Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Earth Quotes

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart during the night, and in the morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.”

Source : "Required Reading; Sickbedside Monitor". www.nytimes.com. 1986.
“To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.”
“With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.”
“One writes in order to feel ...”
“If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.”
“When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”

Source : Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.188, Hachette UK
“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”

Source : Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate
“This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.”

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