[MCN] We're not just spending money: We're spending the planet

[Lance Olsen]

Talk:Economics - Wikiquote <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Economics>
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Economics <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&q=%22spending+the+planet%22&oq=%22spending+the+planet%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4859.9443.0.10963.2.2.0.0.0.0.98.176.2.2.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.97...33i22i29i30k1.r6lApznJzOQ#> <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FlRjHkLH4aIJ:https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Economics+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>
 <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&q=related:https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Economics+%22spending+the+planet%22&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3iPCwiNzVAhVV7WMKHeUiCDQQHwgsMAA>The prosperity we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley. Things may come to ...
Shop Less, Save More (Planet) – Center for Biological Diversity ... <https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/shop-less-save-more-planet-d8f959c9e69a>
https://medium.com/center-for-biological.../shop-less-save-more-planet-d8f959c9e69... <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&q=%22spending+the+planet%22&oq=%22spending+the+planet%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4859.9443.0.10963.2.2.0.0.0.0.98.176.2.2.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.97...33i22i29i30k1.r6lApznJzOQ#> <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I7skEbSkoUgJ:https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/shop-less-save-more-planet-d8f959c9e69a+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>Aug 8, 2016 - It reminds us what we're fighting for, and what we have to lose if we keep spending the planet's resources like the one percent. And it's good for ...
Innovation, globalisation and the environment - OECD Observer <http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html>
http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html <http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html> <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G3QD3vU4ALgJ:oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2240/Innovation,_globalisation_and_the_environment.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>While gains in well-being are beyond question, the main message is that we are spending the planet’ snatural capital in unsustainable ways.However, recoiling ...
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“We have only one planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and consumption patterns...”

From the Executive Summary, WWF:  China Ecological Footprint: Report 2012 : Consumption, production, and sustainability.
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"People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more -- ever more."

Donella Meadows. Just So Much And No More. Yes magazine June 30, 2001
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/437
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“Conservationists are unquestionably useful people. And among the many useful services that they have rendered has been that of dramatizing the vast appetite the United States has developed for materials of all kinds.”

“But what of the appetite itself? Surely this is the ultimate source of the problem. If it continues its geometric course, will it not one day have to be restrained? Yet in the literature of the resource problem this is the forbidden question. Over it hangs a nearly total silence.”

John K. Galbraith. “How much should a country consume?”
In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation. John Hopkins Press. 1958




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