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If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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Too many rich people in the world is a major threat to the human future, and cultural and genetic diversity are great human resources.

Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades' The Guardian (2018)

Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.

If everyone consumed resources at the US level – which is what the world aspires to – you will need another four or five Earths.

As I’ve said many times, ‘perpetual growth is the creed of the cancer cell’.

Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades' The Guardian (2018)

By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated.

The Population Explosion (1990)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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