Herman E. Daly Quotes

• There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

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  Motivational, Nature, Earth

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.248, Island Press

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• The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

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  Nature, Environment, Economy

  Attributed to Herman E. Daly in Tristan Clark "Stick This in Your Memory Hole" (p. 19), 2007.

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• We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

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  Needs, Purpose, World

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• Incluso si pudiéramos crecer para salir de la crisis y retrasar la inevitable y dolorosa reconciliación de la riqueza virtual y la real, cabe preguntarse si sería prudente hacerlo. Los costes marginales del crecimiento adicional en los países ricos, como el calentamiento global, la pérdida de biodiversidad y las carreteras atascadas de coches, probablemente superen ahora los beneficios marginales de un poco más de consumo. El resultado final es que promover un mayor crecimiento económico nos hace más pobres, no más ricos.

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  Wise, Country, Real

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• La degradación medioambiental es una enfermedad iatrogénica inducida por médicos económicos que tratan la enfermedad básica de los deseos ilimitados recetando un crecimiento ilimitado.... Sin embargo, una enfermedad inducida por un tratamiento no se cura aumentando la dosis del mismo.

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  Growth, Environmental, Physicians

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• The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).

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  Technology, Men, Law

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• Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

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  Creation, Resources, Should

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.256, Island Press

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• While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

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  Hands, Invisible Hand, Feet

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• We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

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  Needs, Environment, Clean

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• Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.

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  Independent, Technology, Men

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.125, Island Press

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• Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

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  Growth, World, Modern

  Herman E. Daly (2007). “Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development”, p.12, Edward Elgar Publishing

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• The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.

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  Real, Self, Behaviour

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• But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

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  Opportunity, Growth, Doe

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• If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

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  Orden, Años, Gente

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• The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

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  Development, World, Problem

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• Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

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  Reality, Growth, Hammers

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• Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

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  Reproducción

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• Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

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  Mother, Scarcity, Earth

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.43, Island Press

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