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Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.

— George Monbiot

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If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

Bail out the people, not the corporations. Bail out the living world, not its destroyers. Let’s not waste our second chance.

Corporations’ freedom detracts from our freedom, and it’s a zero-sum game.

No political challenge can be met by shopping.

Of all the varieties of media bias, the deepest is the bias against relevance. The more important the issue, the less it is discussed.

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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

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