61 Quotes by Susan George

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

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.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn’t matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

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

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.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn’t collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

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.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let’s get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don’t want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

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