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The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

— Gifford Pinchot

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs.

— Clayton Christensen

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

— Lamar S. Smith

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

— Steve Daines

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.

— Li Keqiang

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

— Ric Keller

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

— Amory Lovins

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

— Gifford Pinchot

✗Opposing Perspectives

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

— Christian de Duve

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

— Paul Hawken

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

— Spencer Abraham