61 Quotes by Susan George

There’s people coming in who’ve never done any politics at all, who’ve never been in a trade union, they’ve never been in a political party, they’ve never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

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

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.

We’re trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

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

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.

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.