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Subsidize... or lend.
Susan George / Film Actress
Lend
Subsidize
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Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
Susan George / Film Actress
Earth
Land
Surface
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What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
Susan George / Film Actress
Common
Common Good
Missing
Missing You
Notion
Thinking
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
Susan George / Film Actress
Crisis
Culprit
Debt
World
World Bank
Bank
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If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
Susan George / Film Actress
Disaster
Economy
Ifs
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It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
Susan George / Film Actress
People
Seems
Young
Politics People Young
Young People
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Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
Susan George / Film Actress
Capitalism
Kind
Logic
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What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
Susan George / Film Actress
Logic
Profitable
Immediately
Understands
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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
Susan George / Film Actress
Consumption
People
Productions
People Anything Who
Contribute
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Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
Susan George / Film Actress
Education
Children
Cost
Educate
Recovery
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If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
Susan George / Film Actress
Environmental
Cutting
Matter
Tree
More
Cut
How
Down
Forest
Trees
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The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
Susan George / Film Actress
Clubs
Population
Reduction
Sierra
United States
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As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
Susan George / Film Actress
Rich
Want
Consume
Downgrade
More And More
Status
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What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
Susan George / Film Actress
Climate
Climate Change
Effects
Worry
Change Climate Climate Change
Measure
Untold
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We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
Susan George / Film Actress
Running
Crude
Ideas
Trying
Competitive
Darwinian
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Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
Susan George / Film Actress
Space
Curb
Flying
Names
Outer Space
Outer
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The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
Susan George / Film Actress
Development
Doing Good
Example
Good Work
Just One
Movement
Party
Political
Political Parties
Work Good Political
Parties
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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.
Susan George / Film Actress
Democracy
Done
International
Beginnings
Tiniest
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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Susan George / Film Actress
Degrees
Human Suffering
Organisation
Suffering
Change Things
Degree
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I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.
Susan George / Film Actress
Ends
Radical
Want
Great Deal
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The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
Susan George / Film Actress
Commodity
Fighting
Healthcare
Marketplace
Real
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We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Susan George / Film Actress
Accounting
Arithmetic
Crude
Needs
Tools
Tragic
National
Tell
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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
Susan George / Film Actress
Eggs
Inadequate
Issues
Years
Time Work Food
Egg
Every Time
Work Time Food
Predicted
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This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
Susan George / Film Actress
Class
Erosion
Gaps
Middle Class
Opening
Accompanied
Gap
Happening
Wider
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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?
Susan George / Film Actress
Corporations
Not Fair
Rooted
Tax
Somewhere
Fair
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What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
Susan George / Film Actress
Jobs
Community
Development
Labour
Needs
Providers
Service Providers
Enterprises
Initiatives
Intensive
Local
Medium
Sized
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Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
Susan George / Film Actress
Acquisition
Downsizing
Investment
Mergers
Accompanied
Acquisitions
Course
Generally
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Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
Susan George / Film Actress
Accepted
America
Enormous
Investment
Only Time
Wealth
Crises
Elite
Redistribution
Require
Roosevelt
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Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
Susan George / Film Actress
Taken
Things In Life
Thinking
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Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
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Important Things
Long Term
Marketplace
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Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
Susan George / Film Actress
Administration
Army
Colonialism
Debt
Powerful
Whole
Much
Useful
Without
Ever
Having
Powerful Tool
Tool
Useful Tool
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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.
Susan George / Film Actress
Jobs
Country
Developing Countries
Europe
Long Time
Waiting
Time Waiting Long
Time Long Wait
Developed
Wait
Very Long Time
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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.
Susan George / Film Actress
Party
People
Political
Politics Political People
Political Party
Union
Trade Union
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Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.
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Able
Children
Educate
Employment
Stable
Collapsing
Eroded
Generally
Reasonably
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The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.
Susan George / Film Actress
Income
Natural
Next
Next Year
Revenue
Years
Capital
Spend
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Problems
Whereas
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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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Democracy
International
Needs
People
Essentially
International Level
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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.
Susan George / Film Actress
Carbon
Consumption
Petrol
Strong
Would Be
Automobiles
Consume
Recently
Reduce
Weigh
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The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
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Contrary
Country
Mass
Meat
People
Prosperous
Rich Countries
Transformation
Dietary
First Thing
Grown
Habits
The First Thing
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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 / Film Actress
Book
Fighting
Thinking
Time Always Water
Bottle
Every Time
Huge Number
Market
Price
Render
Rid
Services
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