"What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good."
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"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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"The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years."
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"The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat."
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"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt."
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"Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace."
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"Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands."
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"It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics."
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"I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water."
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"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol."
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"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job."
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"What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like."
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"Subsidize... or lend."
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"Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children."
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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production."
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