"For all their power and vitality, markets are only tools. They make a good servant but a bad master and a worse religion."
Fragment of "Natural Capitalism" by PAUL HAWKEN, AMORY LOVINS & L.HUNTER LOVINS
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
"If industry removes concentrated and structured matter from the system faster than it can be replaced, and at the same time destroys the means of its creation, namely ecosystems and habitats, it introduces a fundamental problem in production."
Fragment of "Natural Capitalism" by PAUL HAWKEN, AMORY LOVINS & L.HUNTER LOVINS
Saturday, December 07, 2013
"We, as modern(izing) global constituency, are now at a historical juncture wherein we know so much but fail to grasp that we equally understand so little"
TONY FRY
Friday, November 08, 2013
"Because of the profligate nature of current industrial processes, the world thus faces three crises that threaten to cripple civilisation in the twenty-first century: the deterioration of the natural environment; the ongoing dissolution of civil societies into lawlessness, despair, and apathy: and the lack of public will needed to address human suffering and social welfare. All three problems share waste as a common cause."
Fragment of "Natural Capitalism" by PAUL HAWKEN, AMORY LOVINS & L.HUNTER LOVINS
Saturday, October 19, 2013
"... as per capita availability of water, arable land and fish continue to decline, the world faces the danger of being torn apart by regional conflicts instigated at least in part by resource shortages or imbalances and associated income polarization.
Fragment of "Natural Capitalism" by PAUL HAWKEN, AMORY LOVINS & L.HUNTER LOVINS
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
"What if our economy were organised not around the lifeless abstractions of neoclassical economics and accountancy but around the biological realities of nature? What if generally accepted accounting practice booked natural and human capital not as a free amenity in putative inexhaustible supply but as a finite and integrally valuable factor of production?"
Fragment of "Natural Capitalism" by PAUL HAWKEN, AMORY LOVINS & L.HUNTER LOVINS