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advocate for changes that would help develop a sound twenty-first-century food system, one in which our collective choices might actually matter.
James E. McWilliams • Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
spread the resources we have more equally around the world.
Paul Gilding • The Great Disruption
based on the needs of people rather than business.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
L’accroissement démographique de l’humanité est un objet de crainte depuis que Malthus semblait avoir établi que la population croît plus vite que les ressources alimentaires.
Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
The time has come for a new social contract that recognizes humanity’s collective interest in designing a better form of prosperity for a world in which ecological limits are all too apparent and the growing gap between rich and poor is morally unconscionable.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmental destruction were acceptable costs for their power.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
In The Wizard and the Prophet, Lynn Margulis is indeed quoted as comparing humans to bacteria in a petri dish, warning that humanity could overrun the planet and exhaust its resources, leading to collapse. Charles C. Mann opens the book with a quote from Margulis, whom he admires as “one of the most important biologists in the last half century,” a
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Bernard Lietaer, former senior officer of the Belgian Central Bank and one of the chief architects of the Euro currency, in his book, Of Human Wealth, says that greed and fear of scarcity are programmed; they do not exist in nature, not even in human nature.