Future Earth

“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.”
― Herman E. Daly

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

“If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.”
― Herman E. Daly, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

“The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.”
― Herman E. Daly, For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future