Malthusian Quotes by Herman E. Daly

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• Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which…
• The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
• While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
• If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of…
• The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for…
• Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied…
• We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.
• Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
• There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.
• Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth....…
• The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.
• Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real…

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