Voice of Bufkin

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Conservation is going to prove increasingly futile and increasingly meaningless if its prescriptions are not answered positively by an economy that rewards and enforces good use.

I would call this a loving economy, for it would strive to place proper value on all the materials of the world, in all their metamorphoses from soil and water, air and light to the finished goods of our towns and households, and I think that the only effective motive for this would be a particularizing love for local things, rising out of local knowledge and local allegiance.

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"At present there are five and half billion of you here, and, though millions of you are starving, you’re producing enough food to feed 6 billion. And because you’re producing enough food for 6 billion, it’s a biological certainty that in three or four years there will be 6 billion of you. By that time, however (even though millions of you will still be starving), you’ll be producing enough food for 6 1/2 billion – which means that in another three or four years there will be 6 1/2 billion. But by that time you’ll be producing enough food for 7 billion (even though millions of you will still be starving), which again means that in another three or four years there will be 7 billion of you. In order to halt this process, you must face the fact that increasing food production doesn’t feed your hungry, it only fuels your population explosion."

"Mr. Colbert is a serious performer playing a silly character, while the media and political world are deeply silly but pretending to be serious."