| Sustainability is a word like democracy, freedom, or equality -- a frame for hope, a little preacher sitting on your shoulder or, under attack, a rallying cry for rebellion...
A sustainable planet calls for a tightly networked citizenry to challenge the despoilers, ethnic cleansing in all its forms, and short term greed that cheats the majority out of their future...
If market economies fail to incorporate the impoverished and the planet's flora and fauna, they can collapse like any other dysfunctional human institution. With market collapse, our fragile democracatic institutions can equally bite the dust...
Sustainability is a kind of dough. The market economy is a directed set of hands. As you make your bread, so you eat.
----- Peter Warshall, from "Sustainabiity", The Millenium Whole Earth Catalog |
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