James Gustave Speth Quotes

#1. Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

James Gustave Speth

#2. Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

James Gustave Speth

#3. If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.

James Gustave Speth

#4. The economy is now consuming the planet's available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the environment on a scale that greatly affects the major biogeophysical cycles of the planet.

James Gustave Speth

#5. The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

James Gustave Speth

#6. Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

James Gustave Speth