QUOTES
"The
optimal scale of the economy is smaller, the greater is the degree of complementarity
between natural and man-made capital; our desire for direct experience of nature;
and our estimate of both the intrinsic and instrumental value of other species.
The smaller the optimal scale of the economy, the sooner its physical growth becomes
uneconomic."
"There
is something fundamentally wrong with treating the earth as if it were a business
in liquidation."
“If
you’ve eaten poison, you must get rid of the substances that are making you ill.
Let us then, apply the stomach pump to the doctrines of economic growth that we
have been forced-fed for decades.”
“We
cannot have too many people alive simultaneously lest we destroy carrying capacity
and thereby reduce the number of lives possible in all subsequent time periods.”
“Environmental
degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by the economic physicians (pro-growth
advocates) who attempt to treat the sickness with unlimited wants by prescribing
unlimited production. We do not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing
the treatment dosage.”
“Current
economic growth has uncoupled itself from the world and has become irrelevant.
Worse, it has become a blind guide.”
