Activity Quote by Gaylord Nelson

Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away.…

— Walter Wriston

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has…

— Barry Commoner

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added…

— Gaylord Nelson

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we…

— Gerard Arpey

“Bankruptcy cleans out the system. What’s wrong with that? South Korea went through this in the late 1990s. They didn’t have anyone to bail…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and…

— Chalmers Johnson

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two…

— Stuart L. Hart

Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and…

— David Miliband

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

— Jimmy Carter

Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very…

— Wilbur Ross

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless…

— Phil Harding

Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our…

— Barry Commoner