The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.
You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.
