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"We must bring back into society a deeper sense of the purpose of living. The unhappiness in so many lives ought to tell us that success alone is not enough. Material success has brought us to a strange spiritual and moral bankruptcy."

— Ben Okri (October 2008)

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"Above all, the new macro-economics will need to be ecologically and socially literate, ending the folly of separating economy from society and environment."

— Tim Jackson (in Prosperity without Growth)

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Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize winning economist): 

“We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, solar power. If that surprises you, if you still think of solar power as some kind of hippie fantasy, blame our fossilized political system, in which fossil fuel producers have both powerful political allies and a powerful propaganda machine that denigrates alternatives.”

New York Times (via aftermarx:)

 



 

Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize winning economist):

“We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, solar power. If that surprises you, if you still think of solar power as some kind of hippie fantasy, blame our fossilized political system, in which fossil fuel producers have both powerful political allies and a powerful propaganda machine that denigrates alternatives.”

New York Times (via aftermarx:)

 

 

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"Never has one generation spent so much of its children’s wealth in such a short period of time with so little to show for it as in the Bush years."

— Tom Friedman (in New York Times)