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I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I’m not satisfied until I get the answers.

— 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.

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

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)

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