Environment Quote by Joseph Stiglitz Download Open image “GDP tells you nothing about sustainability” — Joseph Stiglitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environment Gdp Inspirational Love Sustainability
No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
“Besides being blind to lots of good things, the GDP also benefits from all manner of human suffering. Gridlock, drug abuse, adultery? Goldmines for… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“GDP omits many dimensions of the quality of life that matter to people.” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
GDP has been a con perpetrated upon the poor of the world: a measure of economic activity and not of actual wealth. What it… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets. — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a 100,000 have… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making. — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Create an environment for people to fail, to learn, and to grow. Their creativity and productivity will increase. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image