Susan George Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Susan George quotes and sayings page 2 (74 year old activist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 37 we have for her.
“Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.”
“Subsidize... or lend.”
“What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.”
“Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.”
“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.”
“I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.”
“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.”
“I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.”
“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.”
“What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.”
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