Currents Quote by John Ramsay

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

— Noam Chomsky

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

— Vandana Shiva

There is now more pressure on consumers than there has ever been and it is not sustainable.

— Betty Furness

Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for…

— Douglas Massey

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

— Olympia Snowe

Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the…

— Francois-Henri Pinault

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

— Helen Clark

Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long

— Malcolm Brinded

Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement,…

— Barry Commoner

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't…

— Ken Livingstone

If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we…

— Alan Thein Durning