Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
