Stuart L. Hart Quotes

• The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Land, Energy, Typical

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• For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or so, sustainable development will constitute one of the biggest opportunities in the history of commerce. And innovation will be the name of the game.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Believe, Opportunity, Names

  Stuart L. Hart (2010). “Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World”, p.52, FT Press

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• Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Real, Technology, Order

  Stuart L. Hart (2010). “Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World”, p.52, FT Press

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• Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Country, Two, People

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• De hecho, al comenzar el siglo XXI, el dinero y las economías tradicionales están destruyendo lentamente su propio sistema de apoyo. Las crecientes demandas de ambas economías están superando los rendimientos sostenibles de los ecosistemas que las sustentan. Por ejemplo, un tercio de las tierras de cultivo del mundo está perdiendo la capa superficial del suelo a un ritmo que está socavando su productividad a largo plazo, la mitad de los pastizales del mundo están sobrepastoreados y se están convirtiendo en desiertos, y los bosques del mundo se han reducido aproximadamente a la mitad desde los albores de la agricultura y siguen reduciéndose.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Support Systems, Yield, Land

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