6 Quotes by Clive Hamilton

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

Many intellectuals in the social sciences and humanities do not concede that Earth scientists have anything to say that could impinge on their understanding of the world, because the “world” consists only of humans engaging with humans, with nature no more than a passive backdrop to draw on as we please.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

There is only one inborn error: and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. Arthur Schopenhauer.