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Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

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Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. . .

Clings, Economic, Growth, Myth
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[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Care, Inspiration, Motivation, People, Persuaded, Things

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Deemed, Growth, Idealists, Question, Questioning, Revolutionary

Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C. E. O. s and finance ministers.

Capitalist Economy, Progress, Waking, Capitalist, Economies, Money

Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.

Oil, Lakes, Commodity Prices, Imminent, Forests, Use

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

Growth, Material, Pleasures, Prosperity, The End Of The Day
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