Susan George Quotes

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• How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when…
• I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face…
• We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to…
• The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
• The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
• There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
• We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
• As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
• Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
• What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
• Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America…
• The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
• This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied…
• If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
• Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
• It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
• Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
• The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
• Subsidize... or lend.
• The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back…

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