“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.” WorldFirstsLongTwoTermHalfSupportEconomyLandCenturyExampleDemandLosingThirdsTwentiesRateProductivityForestsTraditionalDesertDawnLong TermYieldDestroyingContinuingAgricultureShrinksEcosystemsUnderminingSupport SystemsSurpassingDeterioratingTopsoil Author:Stuart L. Hart
“Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.” MenHumansWisdomPoliticalPoliticsSocialNaturalAnimalRaceEconomyHuman RaceLiberalismDestroyingNature Of Man Author:Robert Bellarmine
“The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.” MenWantShouldStatesWisdomPoliticsNationsSocialWealthPartyEconomyEconomicSecurityMovementTaxesCreatingPropertyFortuneIncomeLiberalismDestroyingEstatesFree ManOrderlySwollenQuacksDiffusionEconomic SecurityEstate Taxes Book:Addresses Upon the American Road Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.” LittlesTwoReasonPoliticsIndividualSocialEconomyRightsImpossibleMankindRevolutionPropertyIncludingAgentsChiefsReason WhyLiberalismDestroyingWorthwhilePreservationProperty RightsIndividual RightsUndesirableSocial Revolution Book:African and European Addresses Source: African and European Addresses
“The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.” WayLongLastsEconomyMinesMaterialsBallsEnvironmentalProductionsForestsCharacteristicsSoilFarmsDestroyingSustainabilityErosionTopographySoil Erosion Author:Wendell Berry
“Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.” IfsWorldWayGivingChristianInterestAnswersChristianityEconomyCreationOrganizationMurderEnvironmentalOur WorldDestroyingInquiryStewardshipProfitableComforter Author:Wendell Berry
“I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansSoulDesireGrowsHuman BeingsSimpleLevelsEconomyGrowingPlanetsSolutionsProfoundDestroyingOur Planet Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives” HeartMeanReasonPoliticalDesireVisionEconomyEconomicPositionPlanetsFutureOffersCooperationDestroyingSaneSustainable DevelopmentPolitical EconomyMeltdownsFruitful Life Author:Oliver James