If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.
Herman E. DalyBut the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.
Herman E. DalyThere is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.
Herman E. DalyWhile the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
Herman E. DalyThe problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
Herman E. Daly