"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."
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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 they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally."
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"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
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"If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster."
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"As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status."
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"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 know."
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"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 by such a process."
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"We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas."
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"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 a year or two later."
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"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction."
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"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
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"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
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"The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis."
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"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."
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"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"
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"There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency."
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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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"Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded."
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"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration."
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"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."
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