[MCN] Climate heroes: Rev Billy Talen and Savitri D

[Lance Olsen]

Climate heroes: Rev Billy Talen and Savitri D

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Mar 31, 2022 — The American climate evangelist Rev Billy Talen is a one-of-a-kind preacher. He began giving sermons to his Church of Stop Shopping after ...
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“The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. ...People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more -- ever more."

Donella Meadows, co-author, Limits to Growth

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" ... all of us, including scientists, will have to give serious thought to the notion that economic growth and true sustainable long-term wealth may now be antithetical."

Kurt Cobb, "Should Scientists Embrace Economic Growth?" 
Scitizen, 16 Oct, 2007 
<http://www.scitizen.com/stories/Future-Energies/2007/10/Should-Scientists-Embrace-Economic-Growth/>

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“The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.”

Timothy Geithner, 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration.

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