Marjorie Kelly > Quotes

“future. In Aldo Leopold’s words, we can either continue seeing land as a “commodity belonging to us” or recognize it as a “community to which we belong.” Humanity can remain in its role of “conqueror of the land-community” or realize we’re a “plain member and citizen of it.”8”
― Marjorie Kelly, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises

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― Marjorie Kelly, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

“The white working class, left adrift by the loss of good jobs, finds its anger misdirected into racial and misogynistic hatred by the conservative forces determined to retain or reinstate the social order governed by wealth, by men, by whites.”
― Marjorie Kelly, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises

“Global systemic risks—climate change, biodiversity loss, deepening inequality, and rising authoritarianism—are converging into what’s being called a polycrisis. While ecological overshoot is one root cause of this polycrisis, equally implicated is financial overshoot: the accumulation of too much financial wealth, even as the system remains intent on a limitless more.”
― Marjorie Kelly, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises