It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.
Paul HawkenBusiness is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
Paul HawkenIt is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.
Paul HawkenCapitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
Paul HawkenHow is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?
Paul Hawken