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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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"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."
"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"
"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."
"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
"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."
"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."
"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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