"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."
"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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Source: Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”
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