Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.
We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth. . . . Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.
Did we kiss last night?" "Yes. " "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it. " He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss. " He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it. Forever.
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.