Alan Thein Durning Quotes

• But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Simple, Environmental, Golden

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• Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Mean, Oxford, Use

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• If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we will have the opportunity of replacing it with a low consumption economy that can endure.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Opportunity, Economy, Lows

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• If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Ecosystems, Style, Environmental

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• Los campesinos desposeídos se abren paso a golpe de tala y quema en las selvas tropicales de América Latina, los nómadas hambrientos llevan sus rebaños a los frágiles pastizales africanos, reduciéndolos a desiertos, y los pequeños agricultores de la India y Filipinas cultivan laderas escarpadas, exponiéndolas al poder erosivo de la lluvia. Quizás la mitad de los más de mil millones de pobres absolutos del mundo están atrapados en una espiral descendente de empobrecimiento ecológico y económico. Desesperados, abusan de la tierra a sabiendas, salvando el presente a costa del futuro.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Destiny, Civilization, Shopping

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