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Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
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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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Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
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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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What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
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What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
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Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
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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?
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What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
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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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What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
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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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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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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
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