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There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

— Herman E. Daly

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The cosmology of scientific materialism … considers the cosmos an absurd accident, and life within it to be no more than another accident.

Current economic growth has uncoupled itself from the world and has become irrelevant. Worse, it has become a blind guide.

Organisms cannot survive in a medium consisting of their own final outputs. Neither can economies.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

to Herman Daly in: Tristan Clark (2007)

Even if we can never quantify [satisfaction or happiness]... as precisely as we currently quantify GNP,... perhaps it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

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