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William E. Rees

William E. Rees Biography

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William E. Rees is a renowned professor born on December 18, 1943. He is a prominent environmental scientist, particularly known for his research on ecological footprints and sustainability.

William E. Rees is a renowned professor born on December 18, 1943. He is a prominent environmental scientist, particularly known for his research on ecological footprints and sustainability.

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“The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.”

Humans Self Choices Inspiring Knowing Awareness Circumstances News Intelligent Self Awareness Gifted Good News Invitations

Author:William E. Rees

“Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.”

Humans Inspiring Environment Capacity Ruins Easter Expanding Human Society Mayans

Author:William E. Rees

“We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.”

Humans Stories Age Gone Crisis Schemes Ecological Ecological Crisis

Author:William E. Rees

“One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.”

Thinking Men Said Christian Culture Christianity Modern Taught Jew Modern Man Jewish Culture

Author:William E. Rees

“To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.”

Long Values Term Perfect Risk Higher Paper Lows Gold Performances Long Term Grades Stability Steady Inflation Not Perfect Instability High Risk

Author:William E. Rees

“Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.”

Long Real Values Sea Modern Produce Paper Resources Gold Rational Ink Printing Crude Unstable Paper Money Real Gold

Author:William E. Rees

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Born: December 18, 1943
Known for: Professor
Quotes: 6

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