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.
Susan George

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.
Susan George

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
Susan George

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
Susan George

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
Susan George

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
Susan George

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
Susan George

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Susan George

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
Susan George

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
Susan George

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.
Susan George

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
Susan George

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
Susan George

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?
Susan George

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
Susan George

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.
Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
Susan George