Quotes by Susan George

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The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

Susan George

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Susan George

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Susan George

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.

Susan George

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

Susan George

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

Susan George

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

Susan George

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Susan George

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Susan George

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Susan George

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Susan George

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

Susan George

What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?

Susan George

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Susan George

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

Susan George

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.

Susan George

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Susan George

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Susan George

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Susan George