Susan George may refer to:
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
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.
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.
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.
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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.
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.
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
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.
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
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.
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.
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.