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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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Susan George
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 26
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Susan Melody George
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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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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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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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Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
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Subsidize... or lend.
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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 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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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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