Susan George Quotes - Page 2

• Subsidize... or lend.

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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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  Issues, Years, Eggs

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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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  Years, Income, Next Year

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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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  Country, Jobs, Europe

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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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  Strong, Would Be, Carbon

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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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  Libro, Lucha, Pensamiento

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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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  Party, Political, Development

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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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  America, Wealth, Investment

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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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  País, Países Ricos, Gente

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• It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

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  People, Young, Seems

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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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  Want, Ends, Radical

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