We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Paul HawkenCapitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
Paul HawkenAnd also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
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