Susan George quotes - page 2

Subsidize... or lend. (Susan George)
I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.
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What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
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There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
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Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
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Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
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How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
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What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
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If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
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I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water. (Susan George)
What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
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