This quote highlights the contrast between the Earth's capacity to provide for basic human needs and its inability to sustain excessive consumption driven by greed.
Who said, "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed" ?
Asked in OPSC CS Prelims 2016 · Topic: Environment and Sustainable Development (Environmental Ethics and Human-Environment Interaction)
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