David Suzuki Quotes About Economics

Quotes about: Economics

• There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

  David Suzuki

  Light, Air, Water

• Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

  David Suzuki

  Brain, Damage, Economics

  "David Suzuki and Jeff Rubin form an unlikely alliance" by Monique Beaudin, montrealgazette.com. November 4, 2012.

• We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Strong, Thinking

• Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Brain, World

• Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

  David Suzuki

  Heart, Successful, Technology

• My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Thinking, Law

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