"A sustainable economy requires a stabilized population and per capita consumption. In fact, since human population is currently overshooting the earth’s carrying capacity by 20 percent or more, our population and economy are going to have to significantly decrease size before long-term stability can be reached." --- Chuck Burr

"Humans are meant to take their modest place in a seamless, stable-state web of living organisms, disturbing that web as little as possible. This would mean sacrifice of present consumption, but it would ensure future survival—which becomes an almost religious objective, perhaps akin to earlier doctrines of “salvation.” People are to be happy not to the extent they dominate their fellow creatures on the earth, but to the extent they lived in balance with them."
--- Chuck Burr