Susan George
Susan George
Susan Melody Georgeis an English film and television actress, film producer and Arabian horse breeder...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth26 July 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Susan George quotes about
names space flying
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
years next-year income
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.
years eggs two
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.
land earth surface
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
democracy done international
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
people consumption productions
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
acquisition mergers investment
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.
want rich
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
tools needs arithmetic
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.
education children recovery
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
missing-you thinking common
What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
suffering degrees organisation
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
british-actress fair less means pay rooted
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?
profitable
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.