Environmental Movement Quotes

Dec 11, 2010 12:27

Form Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, by Mark Dowie (1995)
Quoting David Brower, regarding the tactic of compromise used by large national environmental organizations in the 1980s and early 1990s: "They think they get power by taking people to lunch or being taken to lunch, when in reality they are just being taken. They don't seem to learn, as I did at Glen Canyon, that whenever they compromise they lose." (pg. 76)

Quoting Hazel Henderson, an Economist: "Economics is an advanced form of brain disease" (pg. 245)

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