Quotes

“Anytime you have the opportunity to accomplish something and you don’t, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.”

~ Roberto Clemente, baseball great

“Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.”

~ Eugene McCarthy, when running for President in 1968

“[C]onsuming comes naturally to humankind. Restraint does not. Change requires a supportive social environment.”

~ The Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2008

“Sufficiency is a better term than the ecological buzzword, sustainability, as the latter leaves ambiguous the question of whether what is to be sustained is the existing system or not. But in either case, humanity needs to greatly reduce its load on planetary systems.”

~ Joel Kovel, writing in The Enemy of Nature (2002), p. 208

“[T]he forces pressing towards radical change need not be linear and incremental, but can be exponential in character. In this way, conscientious and radical criticism of the given, even in advance of having blueprints for an alternative, can be a material force, because it can seize the mind of the masses of people. There is no greater responsibility for intellectuals.”

~ Joel Kovel, writing in The Enemy of Nature (2002), p. 224